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The Man Who Never Was (1956)
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Release Date:
9 May 1956 (France)
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The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom-- more
Plot:
True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers. full summary | add synopsis
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Won BAFTA Film Award.
Another 4 nominations
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Interesting!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Clifton Webb | ... | Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu |
 | Gloria Grahame | ... | Lucy Sherwood |
| Robert Flemyng | ... | Lt. George Acres |
| Josephine Griffin | ... | Pam |
 | Stephen Boyd | ... | Patrick O'Reilly |
| Laurence Naismith | ... | Adm. Cross |
| Geoffrey Keen | ... | Gen. Nye |
| Moultrie Kelsall | ... | The Father |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Taxi driver |
| André Morell | ... | Sir Bernard Spilsbury |
| Michael Hordern | ... | Gen. Coburn |
| Allan Cuthbertson | ... | Vice-Admiral |
| Joan Hickson | ... | Landlady |
| Terence Longdon | ... | Larry (as Terence Longden) |
| Gibb McLaughlin | ... | Club porter |
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103 min
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2.55 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (magnetic prints) |
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Average Shot Length = ~15.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~14.4 seconds.
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Continuity: While O'Reilly is waiting in his room to see if he'll be arrested, the light level outside varies continually over the hour of movie time. It starts in the evening. When O'Reilly looks out and sees the drunk it's already quite dark. But when the special branch officers arrive and hide outside, it's quite bright.
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Quotes:
Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu:
Suppose I wanted to put a dead body in the sea, and let it float ashore, and have it accepted by the people who find it as the victim of an air crash at sea. What sort of body would I need?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Back to the Beach (1987)
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Soundtrack:
Bless 'em All
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This is a great movie about WWII. I know we don't have scenes of battles and violence, but maybe this is one of this movie advantages. I don't think blood and shots are really necessary to make a film about a war. Wars are not only made of guns and soldiers, but also of officers who make plans and articulate attacks while they're in secret rooms using every kind of ways to confuse the enemy. In this movie it is decided that British forces would use a corpse with false documents attracting Nazis attention to Greece while the Allied Forces would land in Italy. Easy, but fascinating plot! Watch it!
My rate 8/10