The Man Who Never Was Review
The movie is based on a real story. During WWII, the British tried to fool the Nazis about the places and times of the Allied invasions. The deception about the invasion in Normandy is told in Eye of the Needle and the deception about the invasion of Sicily is the subject of this film. The idea is to let the Germans discover the body of a courier carrying false letters. Stephen Boyd, a fantastic actor who died very young plays the dangerous and seducing Irish spy trying to verify if the story is authentic. A fantastic and bizarre movie.
The Man Who Never Was Overview
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008 Rating: Nr
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A real beauty of a true story provides the basis for The Man Who Never Was, a gripping World War II picture that has no combat scenes, no great vistas of troops. The time is 1943, as the Allies prepare the invasion of Sicily and desperately need a diversionary ploy to make the Germans suspect another invasion target. The solution is simple but ingenious: a dead man's body will be left in the sea to float ashore on the coast of Spain; made to look like a British pilot, he will be carrying papers suggesting an Allied attack on Greece. When the papers fall to the Nazis, they'll swallow the bogus story…or will they? The film's final third tracks an Irish spy for the Axis (Steven Boyd, in one of his first roles) as he travels to London to investigate loose ends.
Clifton Webb gives a crisp, disciplined performance as Ewen Montagu, the officer in charge of the scheme. The film errs only in some melodrama involving Gloria Grahame, the histrionic roommate of an Intelligence worker. Other than that, director Ronald Neame brings his steady, classy approach to bear on a good yarn, and saves special grace for the treatment of the unfortunate dead man who unwittingly loaned his body to a stunt that saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. The film's final haunting shots capture the ethereal shiver of its title. --Robert Horton
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