The Man Who Never Was(Movie, 1956)

Name: The Man Who Never Was
Genre: Thriller, War, Drama, History
Released: 1956
Duration: T01:43:00
Rating: 3.5

1h 43min | Genres: Thriller, War, Drama, History

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd. It is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and chronicles Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily would take place elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The Man Who Never Was was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and Nigel Balchin's screenplay won the BAFTA for that year. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Man Who Never Was

BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nominated for: BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay nominated for: BAFTA Award for Best Film nominated for: BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film

About The Man Who Never Was

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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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Plays in: London

Based on: "The Man Who Never Was" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Sumar Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Latin (LA)

Translated into 13 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 04/03/1956

Cast: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Robert Flemyng, Geoffrey Keen, Ewen Montagu, Peter Sellers, André Morell, Terence Longdon, Moultrie Kelsall, Josephine Griffin, Allan Cuthbertson, William Russell, François Périer

Director: Ronald Neame

Producer: André Hakim

Screenwriter: Ewen Montagu, Nigel Balchin

Film Editor: Peter Taylor

Director of Photography: Oswald Morris

Composer: Alan Rawsthorne

Production Designer: John Hawkesworth

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"El hombre que nunca existió"

"맨 후 네버 워즈"

"존재하지 않은 사나이"

"El espía que nunca existió"

Keywords: bank, world war ii, dead body

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The Man Who Never Was(Movie, 1956)

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