The Man Who Never Was

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

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1956 / 103min.

Rating6.976

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Genres

Thriller

War

Drama

History

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Peter Sellers

Michael Hordern

Geoffrey Keen

Gloria Grahame

William Russell

Cyril Cusack

Stephen Boyd

Laurence Naismith

André Morell

John Welsh

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