The Man Who Never Was poster
Movie · 1956

The Man Who Never Was

1h 43m
Thriller, War, Drama
Ronald Neame
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.
Your take
Feels most like British Intelligence, Operation Amsterdam and Five Graves to Cairo

Details

Original title
The Man Who Never Was
Director
Ronald Neame
Year
1956
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Thriller, War, Drama, History