The Man Who Never Was
“The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--”
19561h 43mThriller · War · Drama
Released
April 3, 1956
TMDB Score
70% match · 95 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
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.
DirectorRonald Neame
- Released
- April 3, 1956
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Studio
- Sumar Productions
Top Billed 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
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