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Clifton Webb

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Drama: Thriller

Drama: War & Disaster

30/12/1997

BBC Two - The Man Who Never Was

A British intelligence officer plans an elaborate hoax on the Nazis. With Clifton Webb.

Espionage thriller based on the true story of an intelligence officer who plans an elaborate hoax to fool the Nazis into thinking the Allies are about to invade Greece, not Sicily.

Espionage thriller in which a British intelligence officer plans an elaborate hoax in the spring of 1943 to fool the Germans into thinking the Allies are about to invade Greece, not Sicily. The plan calls for the navy to float a dead body carrying false identification and information so that the Germans will pick it up. The first part of the mission succeeds, but will the Nazis take the bait?

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