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The Man Who Never Was

Clifton Webb (Actor), Gloria Grahame (Actor), Ronald Neame (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Military & War/World War II
Format	Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Contributor	Gloria Grahame, Moultrie Kelsall, Andr Morell, Nigel Balchin, Ewen Montagu, Josephine Griffin, Robert Flemyng, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Keen, Cyril Cusack, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Ronald Neame, Clifton Webb, Michael Hordern See more
Language	German, Latin, Spanish
Runtime	1 hour and 43 minutes

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British naval agents plant the corpse of a fake major with data to mislead the Nazis. Directed by Ronald Neame.

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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 storyor 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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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.55:1, 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ unknown
Director ‏ : ‎ Ronald Neame
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified, French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007ZEOQE
Writers ‏ : ‎ Ewen Montagu, Nigel Balchin
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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InTheBerkshires

If a wwii history buff, you should see this.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2022

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This movie presents an odd story that was such a clever military hoax during wwii. It is just one example of the clever tricks used to foil the enemy. This film, made just ten years after the war from memories still intact, clearly presents every aspect of the hoax making a fascinating story.

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Last Night I Dreamed A Deadly Dream Beyond The Irish Sky.I saw a Dead Man win the fight and I think the Dead Man was I

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2013

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This particular Motion Picture shares distinction with the very ordinary and the very suspensefull.It is a story that I have viewed more than once because this time consuming effort required to produce one Major William Martin of the Royal Marines was worth watching more than once.As everybody belongs to somebody,"The Man Who Never Was" provided such a success story that "Operation Mincemeat" was the code named operation with which Major William Martin of the Royal Marines helped to persuade Nazi German Officials that the documents found on Major Martins Body were to be believed.It appears as if German forces responded to this proposed threat of an invasion coming from Greece rather than Sicily thereby relocating some percentage of there forces in Italy to Greece.This had the desired affect of lowering the overall ability that could be offered by German forces when the Invasion of Sicily commenced.The film produces some tedious if a bit overstated positions as would be if we can re-locate just one battery.The tediousness of such positioning may of in fact been un-necesary as there was a loss of dramatic story telling ability as a result.Both Ewen Montagu(played by Clifton Webb) and an assistant played by Robert Fleming moved with deligence towards this films overall story.These very same offices whereby much of the intelligence discussions occurred were the very same offices that Ian Fleming was attached to.This is mentioned as both attention to detail could be overstated and otherwise as commonplace occurences. There were two women,one played Ewen Montagu's Secretary(Josephine Griffin) and the other(women) was a librarian(Gloria Grahame), the two women lived together.It can not be stated enough that these two women were instrumental in making this film work.Excellent performances as both clever and intelligent theater was very interesting to watch unfold.When these women were on their own in the presence of Nazi German Agent O'Reilly(played by Steven Boyd) there dramatic storytelling ability was pretty darn good.This film had that about it that as the film progressed it became more and more suspenseful.It seems further that the war had taken a toll which the feminine psyche had some problems with,however it was not only the feminine psyche that had a problem with the toll the war was taking.It had the desired effect of convincing an otherwise wiser man in The German Agent played by Stephan Boyd.A matter perhaps worth mentioning is that both the German Agent(played by Stephan Boyd)and the unidentified "Man Who Never Was" were claimed to be Scottish.A understated complaint was made to Ewen Montagu(played by Clifton Webb) by the father to this particular individual(the unidentified "Man Who Never Was")that they were Scottish and proud of it.Scotland was as well a Neutral Nation during World War II and should not necessarily be considered part of the United Kingdom.Politics is here mentioned as a understated strain in Scotlands relationship with Great Britain.These moments did as it were add up,they added up to credible storytelling .I'am not so easily convinced however the scene occurring which convinced me that German Agent O'Reilly was a wiser man then we were lead to believe occurred in the officers club as he actually expressed a sincere ability that I paid attention to.I do not know if in fact German agents were so skilled but it might very well un-nerve some very resolute fellows when confronted by such sincerity.I'am reminded of a number of 00 accounts whereby Agents were to lose their lives as a result.The particular offices that were involved were in fact associated with and almost exclusively dealt with the double 00 field agent. Ewen Montagu was himself a 00 field agent with there command centralized out of office 39.This effort had people like Ian Flemming attached to its operations.This was a very real War time effort."Operation Mincemeat"was also part of a larger operation.We do not know these things as such but perhaps it is well and good that such things are more properly handled than being the province of hucksters of a sort.This film had that degree of involvement whereby the success or failure of one particular item could doom the believability of Major William Martin of the Royal Marines.This particular mention was worth considering as there was a difference between a Motion Picture and the reality of this war time account of "Operation Mincemeat".This was as it were a good try.I wish to remind the reader that "Operation Mincemeat" was not a well made Motion Picture,it was a real time War Operations plan conducted in 1943.The very detail offerred here was not the detail that was offerred in reality.There are to be certain differences as things may actually have happened and the things that are portrayed in "The Man Who Never Was".There was a story told elsewhere as it involved Irwin Rommel's "Africa Corp".A blown up jeep with a dead soldier behind the wheel had on his person papers that showed a way around a mine field.Rommel's forces discovered the documents and a while later were found to be bogged down in quick sand like desert.There was a-lot at stake with this undertaking both as it were on film and most certainly when it counted.The Film portrays Ewen Montagu in Civilian clothes.He goes to the grave site of Major William Martin and places a Medal,a Medal that Montagu has been awarded upon a wreath which adorns the grave of Major William Martin.It may very well be suggested that such a scene was all the more appropiate given the importance of the life of Major William Martin. "The Man Who Never Was" was as a result of real effort.This film was that to me both a real effort and worth as it were in mentioning the films opening narrative,"Last Night I Dreamed A Deadly Dream Beyond the Irish Sky.I saw a Dead Man win the fight and I think that Dead Man was I".

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george arif

Excellent movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2022

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The British Style of Warfare

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2005

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Britain has traditionally been a naval power but never

had a large standing army. This has prodded its military

planners to think in unconventional terms in striking

at its enemies. This means using its naval forces to

move stealthily around its continental enemies

using naval forces and to try to use deception

to get the enemy off guard, rather than confronting

them head on. The failed First World War operation at Gallipoli was

a good example of this, trying to strike at Germany

"through the back door", rather than just head on

in the blood-soaked trenches of Flanders on the

Western Front.

In the Second World War, all the British leaders and

senior officers

had been traumatized by the slaughter of the

First World War and were desperate to come up with

ways of avoiding a replay. Thus, in 1943, after North

Africa had been cleared of Axis forces, the British

military leaders sought a way to distract the Germans

from the obvious next target, which was Sicily.

The result was deception of "Operation Mincemeat" which is portrayed

in this excellent film. The film is based on Ewen

Montagu's book "The Man Who Never Was". This film

is of a long-lost genre of films which are riveting

in spite of the fact that they don't have any "action",

(i.e. shoot-outs, fist fights, car chases, etc), like another of my favorites "Twelve Angry Men".

A close observation of the film shows, beside the main

story, a lot of other information showing what wartime

Britain was like, such as how London became run-down

and grimy during the long years of bombing and austerity,

how the British learned to take the air raids in stride,

the resignation to the on-going deaths of relatives and

friends

and the shortages of quality consumer goods. In addition,

we see the manifestations of the traditionally tense relationship between

Britain and Ireland as well as Scotland. For military

buffs, there is a brief look at the legendary Mosquito

fighter/bomber and the unsung British submarine force (as

compared to those of the United States and the German

U-Boat force).

One thing to keep in mind is that while Montagu makes

no mention of German efforts to authenticate the existence

of "Major Martin", the film devotes a considerable part

of its plot to that, which I assume is "overdramatized"

to keep the interest of the audience. The film claims

that the German (actually Irish) agent actually gets in

contact with someone who had a part in the whole operation,

and I doubt whether this is factual. However,

this is a minor point and does not detract from the excellence of the film.

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That This Is A True Story. It Actually Happened.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 16, 2019

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I collect classic films and watch them on my computer. I always try to give a real review and not a fake one. This is based on a real story that happened during WWII. It is splendidly acted out all the way through. If you like these type of films, this is a must to add to your collection. You will love how Clifton Webb suggests to Geoffrey Keen what his plan is. Watch what Geoffrey Keen says and how he replies. This was Directed by Ronald Neame. To me its a master piece. All actors are superb but Clifton Web and Gloria Graheme is I would suggest outstanding. An excellent film to add to your collection. I hope you will buy the DVD. I think its an outstanding film to watch. PC. 16. 09. 2019. PS this film is not worth 10 stars, its worth 100 !!!. No sex, no swear words, just plain good old acting at its very best.

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FilmMan

A True WW2 Story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 6, 2022

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A terrific 1956 film of a true life story about Op Mincemeat a cunning and audacious British Military Intelligence plan to fool the Germans in WW2 into thinking the invasion of Sicily was to take place elsewhere. Blu-ray has decent picture quality, good colours and contrast along with some grain to keep detail intact and film like and not processed with loads of DNR. (digital noise reduction which smooths the picture out and can make it look waxy if used too much) A lot of viewers like this look unfortunately so when a classic film comes along and is put on Blu-ray it makes a refreshing change that it hasn’t been slathered in DNR. This definitely hasn’t been. Surprisingly good and very watchable. Sound is allegedly the original 2.0 (stereo) soundtrack in LCPM format and enjoyable. Extras consist of the trailer and a stills gallery, nothing else. No subtitles unfortunately.

Recently remade and shown at the cinema as Op Mincemeat starring Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Matthew Macfadyen and Jason Issacs. Also on dvd and Blu-Ray. I saw that first then The Man Who Never Was. I suppose it will just come down to which version you prefer as there are a few differences between the two films but both equally as good. I liked them in equal measure.

Good price for a good film. If you like the WW2 genre you should enjoy this. Great for fans now it’s on Blu-ray.

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Mr. A. Crank

Fantastic Screenplay, movie and performances

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2020

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The movie is a classic. The accolades given to it are well justified and although close to the real truth with an appearance of the real man who drove the operation through, Montagu. He has a cameo role, that of a Royal Air Force air vice-marshal who has doubts about the feasibility of the proposed plan. It was described by Ben Macintyre in his excellent book "Operation Mincemeat" as a "surreal" moment when the real Montagu addressed his fictional persona, played by Clifton Webb.

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CommonMan

A '50s fan 'Must Buy'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2018

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I can not understand why I have not seen this excellent film before. The story is really very intriguing and the detail involved makes it really come to life. Okay so there are no front line actors in the cast but my goodness every one involved turns in a very good performance. This DVD is a must for lovers of early '50s war movies. Although calling it a war movie is a bad description as no shots are fired. This film is intriguingly confined to the British inelegance backroom boys and their efforts to provide the Germans with false information.

This transfer to DVD is very good, with good sound a visuals quality.

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COLUMBO 52

Very, Very IMPRESSIVE !!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 23, 2018

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What a great film this is. A true British classic. On one level it shows just how coniving and sneaky we, the British, can be in a time of war. From start to finish it portrays a fiendish plot to diecieve the Germans in WW2 . Without giving to much away. The whole thing was kept secret for many years after the war ended. .... Its a pity we could'nt bring this kind of intelligence to bear on todays more pressing problems. But I suppose that was a different generation. Anyway this is a very impressive movie and definatly worth another watch.

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