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Programme Information

True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers

Keywords:

Drama, War, Historical, Spy, History, Based-on-Novel, Based-on-True-Story, World War, Spy Drama, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, WWII, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(1956) (UK) (3 Star)

Cast:

Clifton Webb	.... Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria Grahame	.... Lucy Sherwood
Robert Flemyng	.... Lt. George Acres
Josephine Griffin	.... Pam
Stephen Boyd	.... Patrick O'Reilly
Laurence Naismith	.... Adm. Cross

Supporting Cast:

Geoffrey Keen	.... Gen. Nye
Moultrie Kelsall	.... The Father
Cyril Cusack	.... Taxi driver
André Morell	.... Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Michael Hordern	.... Gen. Coburn
Allan Cuthbertson	.... Vice-Admiral
Joan Hickson	.... Landlady
Terence Longdon	.... Larry
Gibb McLaughlin	.... Club porter

Directors:

Ronald Neame

Writers:

Nigel Balchin
Ewen Montagu