The Man Who Never Was
1956 · 103 min
Directed by Ronald Neame. Written by Ewen Montagu, Nigel Balchin. Starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin.
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.
Critics 88% · audiences 84%