The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was
Release: 1956-04-03
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 7.0
Thriller
War
Drama
History
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Sumar Productions
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Everley Gregg
as Club Matron (uncredited)
Clifton Webb
as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria Grahame
as Lucy Sherwood
Robert Flemyng
as Lt. George Acres
William Squire
as Lt. Jewell
Robert Brown
as French
John Welsh
as Bank Manager
Moultrie Kelsall
as The Father
Michael Hordern
as Gen. Coburn
Joan Hickson
as Landlady
Gibb McLaughlin
as Porter
Miles Malleson
as Scientist
Lloyd Lamble
as Passport Officer (uncredited)
Brian Oulton
as Wills Officer (uncredited)
Josephine Griffin
as Pam
Stephen Boyd
as Patrick O'Reilly
Laurence Naismith
as Adm. Cross
Geoffrey Keen
as Gen. Nye
André Morell
as Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Allan Cuthbertson
as Vice-Admiral
Terence Longdon
as Larry
Peter Sellers
as Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
Cyril Cusack
as Taxi Driver
William Russell
as Joe
Richard Wattis
as Shop Assistant
Ronald Adam
as Adams
