
The Man Who Never Was
1956 • Thriller | War
Ronald Neame
Director
Status
Released
Release date
April 3, 1956
Duration
103 Min
Language
en
Popularity
2.4324
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
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.
Cast

Clifton Webb

Gloria Grahame

Robert Flemyng

Josephine Griffin

Stephen Boyd

Laurence Naismith

Geoffrey Keen

Moultrie Kelsall

Cyril Cusack

André Morell

Michael Hordern

Allan Cuthbertson

Joan Hickson

Terence Longdon

Gibb McLaughlin

Miles Malleson

William Russell

William Squire

Richard Wattis

Ronald Adam

Robert Brown

Everley Gregg

Lloyd Lamble

Brian Oulton

John Welsh

Peter Sellers