The Man Who Never Was

1956

Action / Drama / War

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 6433 6.4K

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Plot summary

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 Photo
Ronald Neame

Top cast

Geoffrey Keen Photo
Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye
Carl Duering Photo
Carl Duering as German Agent
Gloria Grahame Photo
Gloria Grahame as Lucy Sherwood
Richard Wattis Photo
Richard Wattis as Shop Assistant
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946.89 MB
1280*496
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 4
1.72 GB
1920*752
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

A bit like "I Was Monty's Double" (1958)

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 so as to encourage them to divide their forces. A solid British cast of Robert Flemyng, Geoffrey Keen and Laurence Naismith provide the military backbone to the story and Gloria Grahame plays along well when the Nazi's send a slightly oddly cast Stephen Boyd along as an Irishman charged with investigating whether or not the officer and his documents are real. Ronald Neame presents us with a well directed, scripted and scored depiction of a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the cast deliver a solid and, at times, quite suspenseful wartime drama.
Reviewed by monticellomeadow 8 / 10

New Information Available

There is a book out this year (2010) by Ben Macintyre that sheds new light on Operation Mincemeat, based on some declassified documents. The movie does a good job of portraying the story for the screen. Macintyre reveals that the "body" that was dumped in the sea was a young impoverished Welsh coal minor who, either as suicide or out of hunger, ate some rat poison spread on bread in a London tenement as a vermin trap. When the body was recovered by the Spanish fisherman, the "papers" were almost given back to the British. They had to fabricate radio traffic on "compromised" lines to draw the attention of the Germans to the documents. "Oh, yoo-hoo! Look over here!" Lastly, the "papers" had the good fortune to fall into the hands of a Colonel in German intelligence who was a member of the German Resistance. He doubted their authenticity, but sold the Nazi hierarchy on their genuineness. He was hung by the SS in July of 1944 after the failed plot against Hitler.Just some interesting historical amplification for a fine 50-year old movie.
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