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The Man Who Never Was

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

7.0(96)19561h 43m4

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.

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Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • bank
  • world war ii
  • dead body

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Director

Ronald Neame

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNRNew York City, New York3 Apr 1956
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereULondon14 Mar 1956
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical12Centfox15 Jun 1956

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The Man Who Never Was was released on 3 April 1956.

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    CinemaSerf

    8/11/2024

    7/10

    A bit like "I Was Monty's Double" (1958), this is a clever tale of British counter-espionage based on a true story. An RNVR officer Ewan Montagu (Clifton Webb) hits on the idea of arranging for the body of a senior British officer to be washed up on the shores of Spain complete with a whole set of falsified documents designed to mislead the Nazis into thinking that Greece was a target for invasion from N. Africa and …

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