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- "The Man Who Never Was" is a wonderfully suspenseful, well-done World War II drama starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, and Stephen Boyd.
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The Man Who Never Was is an intriguing title, and it fits the historically based movie quite literally. One of its key characters is a nonexistent agent created by a British naval officer as a ploy to fake out the German military in early 1943, when World War II was at its height.
- Ronald Neame, Gerry O'hara
- Clifton Webb
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The Man Who Never Was (1956) A straight up insider, realistic yet slick wide screen view of a particular British undercover mission in WWII. There, in one sentence, said it all. It's a very very good film, but depends on its ordinary flair to survive, which means its flair remains a bit ordinary.
Concocting a fictitious British officer named Maj. William Martin, Montagu gathers false top-secret documents and personal letters to plant upon a corpse that will wash ashore in Spain. But the...
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- Clifton Webb
- Ronald Neame
- Drama, War
The Man Who Never Was: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin. In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
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- Drama, War
- Ronald Neame
- 1956-02-23
The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd.
Nigel Balchin. 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.
Film. Reviews. Dec 31, 1955 11:00pm PT. The Man Who Never Was. Of all the fantastic stories to come out of World War II the use by British Naval Intelligence of a corpse to deceive the Germans...
