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Ronald Neame
Director -
Gerry O'Hara
Assistant Director -
John Hawkesworth
Art Direction -
Peter Taylor
Editor -
Muir Mathieson
Conductor -
Winston Ryder
Sound Editor -
Oswald Morris
Director of Photography -
Nigel Balchin
Screenplay
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CinemaSerf 8/11/2024 6:17:29 PM
A bit like "I Was Monty's Double" (1958), this is a clever tale of British counter-espionage based on a true story. An RNVR officer Ewan Montagu (Clifton Webb) hits on the idea of arranging for the body of a senior British officer to be washed up on the shores of Spain complete with a whole set of falsified documents designed to mislead the Nazis into thinking that Greece was a target for invasion from N. Africa and so as to encourage them to divide their forces. A solid British cast of Robert Flemyng, Geoffrey Keen and Laurence Naismith provide the military backbone to the story and Gloria Grahame plays along well when the Nazi's send a slightly oddly cast Stephen Boyd along as an Irishman charged with investigating whether or not the officer and his documents are real. Ronald Neame presents us with a well directed, scripted and scored depiction of a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the cast deliver a solid and, at times, quite suspenseful wartime drama.
Cyril Cusack
Taxi DriverGloria Grahame
Lucy SherwoodMichael Hordern
Gen. CoburnStephen Boyd
Patrick O'ReillyAndré Morell
Sir Bernard SpilsburyClifton Webb
Lt. Cmdr. Ewen MontaguGeoffrey Keen
Gen. NyeAllan Cuthbertson
Vice-Admiral