Floater

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

In War War Two following the successful conclusion of the fighting in North Africa for the Allies the next clear target was an Allied invasion of Scilly, to weaken the defences of Scilly a deception operation was launched called Operation Mincemeat was launched and this film tells the story of that operation.

Based on a book written by one of the men behind the real life Operation Mincemeat the plot sticks fairly close to history for the opening two thirds of the film but adds in an unnecessary fictitious third act where the Germans send a spy to England to verify the deception operation. While the film does a good job of telling us how the deception was carried out the addition of fictitious elements mean we can draw few conclusions about the real people behind such a scheme.

3/5 a decent diversion but nothing more than that.