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November 1960 (UK)
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Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured. | add synopsis
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Pretty fair WWII spy-as-decoy movie
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bradford Dillman | ... | Capt. Paul Raine |
| Suzy Parker | ... | Lucy Bowen |
| Harry Andrews | ... | Capt. Thomas Rawson |
| Robert Stephens | ... | Capt. Stein |
| Paul Rogers | ... | Maj. William Spence |
| John Welsh | ... | Maj. Taylor |
| Ronald Allen | ... | Jim Abelson |
| A.J. Brown | ... | Frank Bowen |
| Martin Boddey | ... | Henry Crow |
| Charles Lloyd Pack | ... | Ayres |
| Jacques Cey | ... | Cure |
| John Dearth | ... | Capt. Ormrod |
| Norman Coburn | ... | Carter |
| Hennie Scott | ... | Small boy |
| Richard Marner | ... | German colonel |
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100 min
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Bradford Dillman is an American tapped for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in the campaign of deception leading up to D-Day--except that he's only been told half the story by his superiors. The story is based on real-life exploits documented in Anthony Cave Brown's book *Bodyguard of Lies,* (the title of which was based on Churchill's famous comment, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she must always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"). Dillman is completely convincing as the spy who is selected precisely because his psychological profile shows that he *will* eventually break under torture. The depiction of torture itself is pretty grueling, by the way, especially for 1961, and one scene in particular was parodied in the 1984 Abrahams-Zucker movie *Top Secret!* (with Val Kilmer in the Dillman part). Incidentally, Dillman and his co-star, Suzy Parker, who was the top model in America at the time, and embarking on a film and television career, fell in love while making this movie and married shortly thereafter; she gave up both her modeling and acting career for domestic life as Mrs. Dillman not long afterward.