The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

"The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--"
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👍 86%
Critics Score
🎬 88% (RT: 88%)
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Director
Ronald Neame
Runtime
1h 43m
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
TMDB Votes
93
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Overview
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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