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The Man Who Never Was is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ronald Neame released in USA on 3 april 1956 with Clifton Webb
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
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Add to a movie listThe Man Who Never Was is a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book of the same name by Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and dramatising actual events. The film was directed by Ronald Neame and starred Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame and Robert Flemyng. It is about Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British Intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere.
It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Nigel Balchin's screenplay won the BAFTA for that year.
Synopsis
In 1943, Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu (Clifton Webb) comes up with a scheme to deceive the Nazis about the impending invasion of southern Europe. It entails releasing a body just off the coast of Spain, where strong currents will almost certainly cause it to drift ashore in an area where a skilled German secret agent is known to operate. The corpse will appear to be the victim of an airplane crash, the non-existent Royal Marine Major William Martin, who is carrying letters that describe a forthcoming Allied invasion of Greece, rather than the obvious target of Sicily. Time is short, but the impatient Montagu is finally given approval to carry out the mission.Actors
Clifton Webb
(Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu)
Gloria Grahame
(Lucy Sherwood)
Stephen Boyd
(Patrick O'Reilly)
Laurence Naismith
(Adm. Cross)
Cyril Cusack
(Taxi Driver)
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