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The Man Who Never Was

Name: The Man Who Never Was
Director: Ronald Neame
Genre: Thriller, War, Drama, History
Released: 1956-04-03
Cast: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd

ThrillerWarDramaHistory

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 WebbGloria GrahameRobert FlemyngJosephine GriffinStephen BoydLaurence NaismithGeoffrey KeenMoultrie KelsallCyril CusackAndré MorellMichael HordernAllan Cuthbertson

Director

Ronald Neame

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