The Man Who Never Was

"The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--"

Feb 23 1956 Approved 1h 43m
Drama, War

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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Plot

British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift its forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion that Britain is in fact planning to invade Greece, they plan to procure a dead body, plant secret papers on it, and arrange for the Spanish authorities to find it and send the papers on to the Germans. That's the plan, anyway. First they have to find a body that will look drowned, then create an identity for it that will pass German scrutiny. Based on a true story.

Written by

Nigel Balchin, Ewen Montagu

Directed by

Ronald Neame

Cast

Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Sumar Productions

Languages

Deutsch, Español, English, Latin

Awards

Won 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 4 nominations total

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