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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Chilling" data-source="post: 326438" data-attributes="member: 33"><p><strong>The Man Who Never Was (1956)</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWJkNTM4MTEtYmM2MC00MjRiLTg4N2EtNTBhOGRkODdkM2YxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 576px" /></p><p></p><p>It's been fascinating watching this film so soon after watching <em>Operation Mincemeat </em>(2022) which tells the same story and it's been interesting comparing the creative choices made by the film makers. </p><p></p><p>The film was based on a covert plot to deceive the German army during World War II and when <em>The Man Who Never Was</em> was made, some of the information about events hadn't been declassified so the film makers had to make up the missing information. An example of this was where they got a dead body from to use as part of the deception. In this older film, they use the body of a man who died of pneumonia and they persuade his father to give them the body out of patriotism to serve King and country whereas in<em> Operation Mincemeat</em> they use the body of a vagrant who died from a drug overdose. </p><p></p><p>In many ways I prefer the original film which tells the story in a much more straightforward way with fewer superfluous subplots. There was also less of the stereotypical stiff upper lip and old fashioned sensibilities than appears in the newer film.</p><p></p><p><em>The Man Who Never Was</em> is also a bit of a Who's Who of classic British cinema with Michael Horden, Laurence Naismith, Richard Wattis, Joan Hickson and Allan Cuthbertson, amongst other appearing in the cast. Peter Sellars also provided the voice of Winston Churchill. </p><p></p><p>It's a great little war which doesn't show any scenes of warfare, battles and violence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Chilling, post: 326438, member: 33"] [B]The Man Who Never Was (1956)[/B] [IMG width="576px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWJkNTM4MTEtYmM2MC00MjRiLTg4N2EtNTBhOGRkODdkM2YxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg[/IMG] It's been fascinating watching this film so soon after watching [I]Operation Mincemeat [/I](2022) which tells the same story and it's been interesting comparing the creative choices made by the film makers. The film was based on a covert plot to deceive the German army during World War II and when [I]The Man Who Never Was[/I] was made, some of the information about events hadn't been declassified so the film makers had to make up the missing information. An example of this was where they got a dead body from to use as part of the deception. In this older film, they use the body of a man who died of pneumonia and they persuade his father to give them the body out of patriotism to serve King and country whereas in[I] Operation Mincemeat[/I] they use the body of a vagrant who died from a drug overdose. In many ways I prefer the original film which tells the story in a much more straightforward way with fewer superfluous subplots. There was also less of the stereotypical stiff upper lip and old fashioned sensibilities than appears in the newer film. [I]The Man Who Never Was[/I] is also a bit of a Who's Who of classic British cinema with Michael Horden, Laurence Naismith, Richard Wattis, Joan Hickson and Allan Cuthbertson, amongst other appearing in the cast. Peter Sellars also provided the voice of Winston Churchill. It's a great little war which doesn't show any scenes of warfare, battles and violence. [/QUOTE]
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