This is a devilishly diabolical tale of WW 2 that saved thousands of lives of Allied soldiers. The plan was to use a dead man as a plant of a phony British Intelligence officer who drowned and could be recovered by the Germans. The information he had on him would redirect a few German divisions out of Sicily and into Greece, where a phony invasion plan had been suggested on the unfortunate corpse. In real life, this person was a vagrant who had committed suicide, but the film gives the impression that it is a man who was handed to the British by his father shortly after his death. Despite this fallacy, the film still holds up, and a bit of literary license is acceptable. Gloria Grahame and Clifton Webb give admirable performances.
Review of The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was
(1956)
Embellished Tale Still Diabolical - The Man Who Never Was
3 January 2022