The Man Who Never Was

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Nigel Balchin, Ewen Montagu

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.

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

Adm. Cross

Geoffrey Keen

Gen. Nye

Moultrie Kelsall

The Father

Cyril Cusack

Taxi Driver

André Morell

Sir Bernard Spilsbury

Michael Hordern

Gen. Coburn

Allan Cuthbertson

Vice-Admiral