The Man Who Never Was
03/04/1956
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.
Movie Information
Clifton Webb
as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria Grahame
as Lucy Sherwood
Robert Flemyng
as Lt. George Acres
Josephine Griffin
as Pam
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 Russell
as Joe
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)
