The Man Who Never Was Movie Review 1955

Tense true story (with melodramatic embroidery) from WWII shows in step-by-step detail how Britain duped the Axis by letting them find an Allied corpse bearing phony invasion plans. Based on the book by the scheme's mastermind Ewen Montagu, played by Webb; Peter Sellers provides the voice of an offscreen Winston Churchill.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 102 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II Spies, True Stories

Cast

Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd, Andre Morell, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Hordern

Cinematography

Oswald Morris

Director

Ronald Neame

Producer

20th Century-Fox

Awards

British Acad. 1956: Screenplay.