
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
7.0|3 Apr, 1956|103 min
The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--
7.0|3 Apr, 1956|103 min
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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.
Keywords
bank
world war ii
dead body
Casts

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

Michael Hordern
Gen. Coburn

Allan Cuthbertson
Vice-Admiral

Joan Hickson
Landlady

Terence Longdon
Larry

Gibb McLaughlin
Porter

Miles Malleson
Scientist

William Russell
Joe

William Squire
Lt. Jewell

Richard Wattis
Shop Assistant

Ronald Adam
Adams

Robert Brown
French

Everley Gregg
Club Matron (uncredited)

Lloyd Lamble
Passport Officer (uncredited)

Brian Oulton
Wills Officer (uncredited)

John Welsh
Bank Manager

Peter Sellers
Winston Churchill (voice)
Crews

Ronald Neame
Director
Nigel Balchin
Screenplay

Oswald Morris
Director of Photography
Peter Taylor
Editor

Gerry O'Hara
Assistant Director
Erica Masters
Assistant Director
Bob McNaught
Associate Producer

John Hawkesworth
Art Direction
André Hakim
Producer
Alan Rawsthorne
Original Music Composer
Winston Ryder
Sound Editor
Basil Fenton-Smith
Sound Mixer
Arthur Ibbetson
Camera Operator
Harold Fletcher
Makeup Artist
Ewen Montagu
Book
Tom Howard
Visual Effects
Muir Mathieson
Conductor
J.B. Smith
Sound Mixer
Backdrops & Posters

