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The Man Who Never Was

7.0 103 mins Thriller   War   Drama   History   1956
Sumar Productions  
Director(s): Ronald Neame

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.

Casts of The Man Who Never Was

Clifton Webb

as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

Gloria Grahame

as Lucy Sherwood

Robert Flemyng

as Lt. George Acres

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

Michael Hordern

as Gen. Coburn

Allan Cuthbertson

as Vice-Admiral

Joan Hickson

as Landlady

Terence Longdon

as Larry

Gibb McLaughlin

as Porter

Miles Malleson

as Scientist

William Squire

as Lt. Jewell

Richard Wattis

as Shop Assistant

Ronald Adam

as Adams

Robert Brown

as French

Everley Gregg

as Club Matron (uncredited)

Lloyd Lamble

as Passport Officer (uncredited)

Brian Oulton

as Wills Officer (uncredited)

John Welsh

as Bank Manager

Peter Sellers

as Winston Churchill (voice)

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