
The Man Who Never Was
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Release Date: 1956-04-03
Thriller
War
Drama
History
★★★★★★★★★★ (88 votes)
Casts

Clifton Webb
as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

Gloria Grahame
as Lucy Sherwood

Robert Flemyng
as Lt. George Acres

Josephine Griffin
as Pam

Stephen Boyd
as Patrick O'Reilly

Laurence Naismith
as Adm. Cross

Geoffrey Keen
as Gen. Nye

Moultrie Kelsall
as The Father

Cyril Cusack
as Taxi Driver

André Morell
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury