Discover
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Ronald Neame
Director -
Gerry O'Hara
Assistant Director -
Arthur Ibbetson
Camera Operator -
Muir Mathieson
Conductor -
Oswald Morris
Director of Photography -
Tom Howard
Visual Effects -
John Hawkesworth
Art Direction -
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.
Joan Hickson
LandladyPeter Sellers
Winston Churchill (voice)Stephen Boyd
Patrick O'ReillyCyril Cusack
Taxi DriverMichael Hordern
Gen. CoburnTerence Longdon
LarryAndré Morell
Sir Bernard SpilsburyLaurence Naismith
Adm. Cross