Skip to content
Cinearium
Poster for The Man Who Never Was
Watch trailer

The Man Who Never Was

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

★ 7.0 TMDB Rating · 96 votes

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.

Director
Ronald Neame
Release date
Apr 3, 1956
Original language
English
Origin
United States, United Kingdom

Cast of The Man Who Never Was

  • Portrait of Clifton Webb

    Clifton Webb

    Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

  • Portrait of Gloria Grahame

    Gloria Grahame

    Lucy Sherwood

  • Portrait of Robert Flemyng

    Robert Flemyng

    Lt. George Acres

  • Portrait of Josephine Griffin

    Josephine Griffin

    Pam

  • Portrait of Stephen Boyd

    Stephen Boyd

    Patrick O'Reilly

  • Portrait of Laurence Naismith

    Laurence Naismith

    Adm. Cross

  • Portrait of Geoffrey Keen

    Geoffrey Keen

    Gen. Nye

  • Portrait of Moultrie Kelsall

    Moultrie Kelsall

    The Father

  • Portrait of Cyril Cusack

    Cyril Cusack

    Taxi Driver

  • Portrait of André Morell

    André Morell

    Sir Bernard Spilsbury

  • Portrait of Michael Hordern

    Michael Hordern

    Gen. Coburn

  • Portrait of Allan Cuthbertson

    Allan Cuthbertson

    Vice-Admiral

The Man Who Never Was Trailer

Movies Like The Man Who Never Was