The Man Who Never Was (1956)

The Man Who Never Was (1956)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/






Image: NTSC

Language: English, French, Spanish (latinamerica)

Subtitles: English , Spanish



Director:Ronald Neame



Writers:Ewen Montagu (book) and

Nigel Balchin (screenplay)



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

Michael Hordern ... Gen. Coburn

Allan Cuthbertson ... Vice-Admiral

Joan Hikson ... Landlady

Terence Longdon ... Larry (as Terence Longden)



PLOT:



British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body is to be procured, allowed to be found with secret papers on him by Spanish authorities who will send the papers on to the Germans, or that's the plan. First they have to find a body that will look drowned, and create an identity for him that will pass the examination of the German agent who is sure to check him out. Based on a true story