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The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Directed by Ronald Neame

Drama | War

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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.

Rated NR | Length 103 minutes

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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

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