This article is about the 1956 film. For the memoir by Ewen Montagu, see The Man Who Never Was (book). For The Sarah Jane Adventures episode, see The Man Who Never Was (The Sarah Jane Adventures).
The Man Who Never Was
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Directed by
Ronald Neame
Screenplay by
Nigel Balchin
Based on
The Man Who Never Was (1953 book) by Ewen Montagu
Produced by
André Hakim
Starring
Clifton Webb
Gloria Grahame
Robert Flemyng
Stephen Boyd
Cinematography
Oswald Morris
Edited by
Peter Taylor
Music by
Alan Rawsthorne
Production company
Sumar Film Productions
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
15 March 1956 (1956-03-15) (UK)
Running time
103 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd. It is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and chronicles Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily would take place elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
The Man Who Never Was was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival,[1] and Nigel Balchin's screenplay won the BAFTA for that year.[2]
^"Festival de Cannes: The Man Who Never Was". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
^"BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
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