The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Directors

Ronald Neame

Cast

Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Stephen Boyd, Wolf Frees, Ewen Montagu, Peter Sellers

The story

In 1943, Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu devises a scheme to deceive the Nazis about the impending invasion of Southern Europe. It entails releasing a corpse with a fictional identity off Huelva on the coast of Spain, where strong currents will carry it ashore near where a known German agent operates. The non-existent Royal Marine courier, Major William Martin, would appear to be a plane crash victim carrying documents about an upcoming Allied invasion of German-occupied Greece, rather than Sicily, the more obvious target.

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