<p>This week Rob and Duncan are washing up on the shores of Spain with <em>The Man Who Never Was</em>! This 1956 spy thriller is the first cinematic telling of the story of Operation Mincemeat – popularised, of late, in a Ben Macintyre book and a subsequent movie version – and starred Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame. What was the best death in a film about a corpse? What was Noël Coward's epitaph for Clifford Webb's mother? And it's Rob's turn to decide whether this was the operation that changed the course of the war...</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>See our prospective movie list! Buy merch! Visit our website: <a href="https://warmovietheatre.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://warmovietheatre.com</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Help us out by doing our listener survey: <a href="http://bit.ly/warmovietheatre-survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/warmovietheatre-survey</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Suggestions? Comments? Drop us a line at warmovietheatre@gmail.com.</h3><h3>Visit us at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre</a> or on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/warmovietheatre.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a> and <a href="https://x.com/warmovietheatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://warmovietheatre.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">at our website</a>.</h3><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>