This lacklustre wartime espionage film tells the true story of how the floating ashore in Spain of the body of a supposed dispatch-carrying British officer deceived the Germans into believing that the Allies had no interest in invading Sicily from North Africa and that the second front was to be launched in Greece.
Stodgily directed by Ronald Neame, it’s less a thriller and more a game of wartime charades. The tale was told better in Operation Mincemeat (2021).
Lieutenant-Commander Ewen Montagu
Clifton Webb Lucy Sherwood
Gloria Grahame Lieutenant George Acres
Robert Flemyng Pam
Josephine Griffin Patrick O’Reilly
Stephen Boyd Admiral Cross
Laurence Naismith General Nye
Geoffrey Keen Sir Bernard Spilsbury
André Morell General Coburn
Michael Hordern Vice Admiral
Allan Cuthbertson Larry
Terence Longdon
Director
Ronald Neame
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