All the other reviews have pretty much said all the reasons I enjoy this WWII thriller that 'goes down' like a crime caper movie. I especially appreciated a young Stephen Boyd playing a Nazi agent. Clifton Webb uses his theatrical expertise as always to deliver a crisp, effective performance. He was never a 'cinematic' actor and his roles and manner are always filmed 'theatrically' (think Laura). One baffling flaw in this film that you 'can't unsee'. Gloria Grahame gives a quite adequate performance but through much of the film her face looks as though it were glazed like a donut. A shiny wet look in scene after scene that totally weirds me out. This is in an era when a woman would go to the powder room if her nose was a little shiny. How did this get by the director, makeup artists and certainly Gloria herself who was VERY conscious of her image. It is not a little shiny, she looks WET.
Review of The Man Who Never Was
