The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

1956 · 103 min · EN · NR · 7.1 (73 votes)
Dir. Ronald Neame · Starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith · Music Alan Rawsthorne

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

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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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A masterclass in wartime deception. This film feels like a tense, intricate chess match played out on a global scale, where every move is calculated and the stakes couldn't be higher. It's a cerebral thriller rooted in historical fact.

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