

The Man Who Never Was
DirectorRonald Neame
“The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--”
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.
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Cast

Clifton Webb
Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

Gloria Grahame
Lucy Sherwood

Robert Flemyng
Lt. George Acres

Josephine Griffin
Pam

Stephen Boyd
Patrick O'Reilly

Laurence Naismith
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Geoffrey Keen
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Moultrie Kelsall
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Cyril Cusack
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André Morell
Sir Bernard Spilsbury

Michael Hordern
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Allan Cuthbertson
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