The italian man who went to malta tv tropes

THE ITALIAN MAN WHO WENT TO MALTA TV TROPES MOVIE

It's too obvious and a diversion is needed. North Africa has been taken and London is preparing to invade the obvious next step Sicily. The Man Who Never Was is a very good wartime espionage drama that still holds up very well for today's audience. In fact a certain sad, but serendipitous event in the life of Gloria Grahame who is Webb's secretary's roommate plays a key role in the proceedings. Boyd's no fool and it becomes a battle of wits when the Allies learn of his presence in London. The whole idea was cooked up by Admiral Ewen Montagu played here by Clifton Webb who drops his usual acerbic manner and delivers a very good performance against type. Not being complete dummies the Germans naturally think to check it out and they send an agent in, a Nazi sympathizer from Ireland played by Stephen Boyd. A body selected for the occasion and dropped deliberately by the British showing alternate plans to the Axis. A dead body was washed up in neutral, but Axis led Spain. The Man Who Never Was is a true story on a particular intelligence gambit that was tried. So the Germans did in fact have to be vigilant on all fronts.

But there were policy differences because Americans wanted a cross channel invasion back then as the quickest way to defeat Hitler. In point of fact the next logical thing to do was what was done, invade Sicily and clear the route to the Suez Canal and take the pressure of the embattled British forces in Malta. It's around Labor Day of 1943, the Afrika Korps has been kicked out of North Africa, what to do next for the Allies. So much for my impressions of how well actors approximate accents!! A very, very good war film-one not to be missed.

Then, when I checked IMDb, I noticed that he really was Irish. It's funny, but when I first heard Stephen Boyd in the film, I thought to myself 'wow.he's really bad at faking Irish accents'. The acting is very good and despite Clifton Webb being an American, his lovely diction and accent appear decent enough for his role an an Englishman. However, unlike the typical war film, there is no fighting or killing in this film-it's more a spy film than anything else. The film is very taut and well-written throughout. And, if the spy cannot confirm that the dead man is genuine, then the British ruse will be a failure. However, while the Germans do assume that the body and secrets on him are genuine, they need to be sure, so they send an Irish agent into Britain to trace the comings and goings of the dead man-to see if he is real and recognized by those who he should have some in contact with before his death. Then, the body is pushed out of a sub off the coast of Spain in the hope that the pro-German Spanish government passes this false information to the Nazis.

In order to do so, they take a man who recently died from pneumonia and dress him up in an officer's uniform complete with phony orders for the invasion of Greece. A couple British officers have come up with an interesting idea-fool the Germans into anticipating an invasion of Greece instead in order to divert the German defenses on the wrong anticipated target.

THE ITALIAN MAN WHO WENT TO MALTA TV TROPES MOVIE

This movie is based on the book-a true account of a British plan to fool the Germans before the invasion of Sicily in 1943.

The italian man who went to malta tv tropes