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The Man Who Never Was

NR
Movie
1956
1h 43m
English
Thriller, War, Drama, History
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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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7.6
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Cast

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Clifton Webb
Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria Grahame
Lucy Sherwood
Robert Flemyng
Lt. George Acres
Josephine Griffin
Stephen Boyd
Patrick O'Reilly
Laurence Naismith
Geoffrey Keen
Moultrie Kelsall
Cyril Cusack
Taxi Driver
Andr Morell
Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Michael Hordern
Gen. Coburn
Allan Cuthbertson
Vice-Admiral
Joan Hickson
Landlady
Terence Longdon
Gibb McLaughlin
Miles Malleson
William Russell
William Squire
Lt. Jewell
Richard Wattis
Shop Assistant
Ronald Adam
Robert Brown
Everley Gregg
Club Matron (uncredited)
Lloyd Lamble
Passport Officer (uncredited)
Brian Oulton
Wills Officer (uncredited)
John Welsh
Bank Manager
Directed By: Ronald Neame
Written By: Nigel Balchin (Screenplay)

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FinFan says...
7 years ago
The first time I heard about "Operation Mincemeat" I instantly thought it would make a great movie. Now I discoverd this movie has already been made decades ago. For someone who didn´t know the story it might seem like a fiction but this actually happened. OK, some stuff has been added for the drama and some things have been changed like it´s always done in movies but in general it depicts the operation quite well. Even if you´re not into WWII history you´ll get a very good spy movie. But keep in mind this is a 1956 movie which is made in the style of the time. It is in no way cheesy or overly patriotic which I consider to be a great plus.
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scuddzero-deleted-1588572121 says...
10 years ago
I decided to watch this film after Stephen Fry mentioned it on the show QI. I was pleasantly suprised at how good it was, you do get the sense from the first half of the movie that they are just building up to something that really happened and you pretty much know what it is by reading the Synopsis, but the second half of the movie featuring the German Spy was very good at adding tension to the film and I found myself gripped that it could all be undone at any second. I'd recommend this film to anyone who is interested in the historical films about WW2 (even though there is a lot's added to the story for dramatic effect) and for those who like a good spy story.
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