Title | Man Who Never Was |
Year | 1956 |
Time | 103 mins |
Genre | Action; Drama; History; Thriller; War |
Director | Ronald Neame |
Edition | |
Format | DVD |
Actor | Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye; Michael Hordern as Gen. Coburn; Andr� Morell as Sir Bernard Spilsbury; Laurence Naismith as Adm. Cross; Cyril Cusack as Taxi driver; William Russell as Joe; Stephen Boyd as Patrick O'Reilly; Gloria Grahame as Lucy Sherwood; Joan Hickson as Landlady; William Squire as Lt. Jewell; Terence Longdon as Larry; Miles Malleson as Scientist; Robert Flemyng as Lt. George Acres; Allan Cuthbertson as Vice-Admiral; Richard Wattis as Shop assistanat |
Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
Cinematography | |
Language | English |
Plot | 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. |
Producer | Andre Hakim |
Writer | Nigel Balchin; Ewen Montagu |
Subtitles | English; English (Closed Captioned); Spanish |