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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 3, 1956

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Thriller, War, Drama, History

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Man Who Never Was

Production Companies

Sumar Productions

Director

Ronald Neame

Description

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.