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India Press Store - The Man Who Never Was
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Directed By: Ronald Neame
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543173236
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-06-07
Running Time: 103
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
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Summary: The Man Who Never Was
Comment: A true war time adventure.Clifton Web did a great performance.A clever plan to fool the Germans.
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Summary: Tales of British wartime Derring-Do!
Comment: It IS a true tale and a lot of the detail is correct - till about half way through when an "Irish spy" arrives in the UK on behalf of the Germans. Not needed in the real world story - the twist is needed to add some tension at the end of the film.
Clifton Webb acts like Clifton Webb - that is to say like a plank of wood! However for the period it is well done.
Spot the pennant number on a Castle Class frigate in the background of one scene and then go and watch "The Cruel Sea". Guess the Admiralty "lent" the British cinema the same ship in more than one movie!
Topical (early 2008) because as of late the identiy of the "body" used in the real war has become subject of fresh debate.
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Summary: Cheers for The Man Who Never Was
Comment: I had always tought of clifton Webb as that weird guy who starred only in The Stars And Stripes For Ever, A 1950's verson of The Titanic and Cheaper By The Dozen. He comes a accross as a brilliant ex attorney, an Hercules Poirot type almost, trying to think one step ahead of the Gerries in this wonderful espionage thriller.
True there are no big battle scenes but how all the pieces come together and the tension that builds when the German spy comes to check on things was masterful. Everything fits.
I had read the book on this tale at 15 and now at 42 have seen the film for the first time and give it 4 + stars.
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Summary: What a surprise
Comment: I loved this movie. It is a true story told honestly. It holds you in suspense like any good thriller. Of course it is dated, but that adds to its quality. Also, it was in color and I feel that helped. Very few people know that a corpse played a very important part in WWII when it was used as a decoy by the British to fool the Germans that they planned an invasion in a different place to where it did happen. The Germans were not fools, and they sent an Irish agent to check out the corpse story. That was where it got really exciting. For its age and subject matter, the movie was quite impressive. Also the dvd has excellent quality color and sound. It survived surprisingly well over the years. You won't be disappointed if you like WWII movies.
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Summary: Great simple spy thriller
Comment: I never knew of this film but now that I have seen it I feel it is one of the better thriller spy films I have seen. Also, it is not so over the top as any film version of it of today would be. No crazy car chase, no massive explosions... Sometimes simple is better.
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Clifton Webb stars in this fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. In an effort to convince the Germans to redeploy their defenses, Lt. Commander Montagu (Webb) creates a false English officer and fabricates letters that indicate the British intend to land in Greece. Montagu than plants these documents on a dead man and orchestrates the "discovery" of this "officer" on the coast of Spain, Knowing the papers will fall into German hands. What follows is a taut cat-and mouse game as British Intelligence waits for Berlin to respond, then races to stay one step ahead of the Nazi agent dispatched to determine if the dead man is genuine. This true story of ingenious deception is a riveting tale of wartime espionage.
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