The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Released: Apr 03, 1956
Runtime: 103 minutes
Genre: Thriller, War, Drama, History
Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith
Crew: Ronald Neame (Director), Nigel Balchin (Screenplay), André Hakim (Producer), Bob McNaught (Associate Producer), Alan Rawsthorne (Original Music Composer), Oswald Morris (Director of Photography)