| Clifton Webb stars in this fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. In an effort to convince the Germans to redeploy their defenses, Lt. Commander Montagu (Webb) creates a false English officer and fabricates letters that indicate the British intend to land in Greece. Montagu than plants these documents on a dead man and orchestrates the discovery of this officer on the coast of Spain, Knowing the papers will fall into German hands. What follows is a taut cat-and mouse game as British Intelligence waits for Berlin to respond, then races to stay one step ahead of the Nazi agent dispatched to determine if the dead man is genuine. This true story of ingenious deception is a riveting tale of wartime espionage. |
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Editor's Note
A spy thriller about a WWII British spy trying to fool the Nazis into believing false plans for a British invasion of Greece. His nemesis is a German spy who tries to verify the identity of the British corpse on whom these false plans were planted.
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Cast & Crew
| Clifton Webb | |
| Gloria Grahame | |
| Robert Flemyng | |
| Stephen Boyd | |
| Alan Rawsthorne - Original Music By | |
| Andre Hakim - Producer | |
| Nigel Balchin - Writer | |
| Oswald Morris - Cinematographer | |
| Peter Taylor - Editor | |
| Ronald Neame - Director |

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