The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Clifton WebbLt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
- Gloria GrahameLucy Sherwood
- Robert FlemyngLt. George Acres
- Josephine GriffinPam
- Stephen BoydPatrick O'Reilly
- Laurence NaismithAdm. Cross
- Geoffrey KeenGen. Nye
- Moultrie KelsallThe Father
- Cyril CusackTaxi Driver
- André MorellSir Bernard Spilsbury
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- Ronald NeameDirector
- Nigel BalchinScreenplay
- Oswald MorrisDirector of Photography
- Alan RawsthorneOriginal Music Composer
- Peter TaylorEditor
- André HakimProducer
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