Product: The Man Who Never Was (2005)
Rating: 4.0
Well done fact-based movie
"The Man Who Never Was" is a well-done fact-based wartime-deception movie.Essentially, the British devise a plan to fool the Germans into thinking that Sicily will not be a target for invasion. They concoct a history and background for "the man" who will be used to present the deception to the Germans.Clifton Webb ("Laura", "Cheaper by the Dozen") plays the real-life mastermind of the plan Ewen Montagu, and Stephen Boyd ("Ben-Hur", "Fantastic Voyage") plays the counter-spy.Supporting roles by Gloria Grahame, Cyril Cusack and others are quite good. Peter Sellers is the uncredited voice of Winston Churchill.Highly recommended as one of the better "deceptive plans" movies which includes the popular "The Eagle Has Landed" and my favorite, "Thirty Six Hours" with James Garner.The DVD cover is strange in that although Clifton Webb wears civilian clothes only in the last scene, he is never in the golden countryside and never looks at airplanes in the sky (which appear to be unidentified American P-47's which is possible in Europe, or the earlier Pacific theater SBD Dauntless...funny how movie people take license with their own movies :-)Still - jolly good show, and cheap on sale, too. Subtitles, chapters and a trailer are the only extras.