The Man Who Never Was

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). For the television series, see The Man Who Never Was (TV series).
For other uses, see The Man Who Never Was (disambiguation).

The Man Who Never Was
Clifton Webb as Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu
DVD cover
Directed byRonald Neame
Screenplay byNigel Balchin
Based onThe Man Who Never Was
by Ewen Montagu
Produced byAndré Hakim
Starring
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byPeter Taylor
Music byAlan Rawsthorne
Production
company
Sumar Film Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • 15 March 1956 (1956-03-15) (UK)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Man Who Never Was". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
  2. ^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.