The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.55:1 103m
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Gloria Grahame, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
In 1943 two naval officers devise a plan to weaken Nazi resistance to the invasion of Sicily by floating a body offshore to neutral Spain carrying misleading secret papers.
Review:
Later remade as Operation Mincemeat (2021), this was a prestigious production of its day, burdened with two American stars and the unfortunate Fox Cinemascope process. Oswald Morris, who would probably have been far happier with black and white, nevertheless conjures some suitably dusky WW2 images and low-level light work. The tale rattles along briskly, trimmed of any fat, and the cast is a veritable who's who of British acting talent of the time.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.55:1 103m
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Gloria Grahame, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
In 1943 two naval officers devise a plan to weaken Nazi resistance to the invasion of Sicily by floating a body offshore to neutral Spain carrying misleading secret papers.
Review:
Later remade as Operation Mincemeat (2021), this was a prestigious production of its day, burdened with two American stars and the unfortunate Fox Cinemascope process. Oswald Morris, who would probably have been far happier with black and white, nevertheless conjures some suitably dusky WW2 images and low-level light work. The tale rattles along briskly, trimmed of any fat, and the cast is a veritable who's who of British acting talent of the time.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.55:1 103m
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Gloria Grahame, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
In 1943 two naval officers devise a plan to weaken Nazi resistance to the invasion of Sicily by floating a body offshore to neutral Spain carrying misleading secret papers.
Review:
Later remade as Operation Mincemeat (2021), this was a prestigious production of its day, burdened with two American stars and the unfortunate Fox Cinemascope process. Oswald Morris, who would probably have been far happier with black and white, nevertheless conjures some suitably dusky WW2 images and low-level light work. The tale rattles along briskly, trimmed of any fat, and the cast is a veritable who's who of British acting talent of the time.