The Man Who Never Was (1956)
"The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--"

Title: The Man Who Never Was
Original Title: The Man Who Never Was
Release Date: 1956-04-03
Status: Released
Rating: 7/10 (from 87 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Thriller, War, Drama, History
Production Companies: Sumar Productions
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