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The Man Who Never Was

The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--

7.019561h 43mReleased94 votes

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.

Director:
Ronald Neame
Country:
United Kingdom
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Cast

  • Clifton Webb

    Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

  • Gloria Grahame

    Lucy Sherwood

  • Robert Flemyng

    Lt. George Acres

  • Josephine Griffin

    Pam

  • Stephen Boyd

    Patrick O'Reilly

  • Laurence Naismith

    Adm. Cross

  • Geoffrey Keen

    Gen. Nye

  • Moultrie Kelsall

    The Father

  • Cyril Cusack

    Taxi Driver

  • André Morell

    Sir Bernard Spilsbury

  • Michael Hordern

    Gen. Coburn

  • Allan Cuthbertson

    Vice-Admiral

  • Joan Hickson

    Landlady

  • Terence Longdon

    Larry

  • Gibb McLaughlin

    Porter

  • Miles Malleson

    Scientist

  • William Russell

    Joe

  • William Squire

    Lt. Jewell

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