I liked "Operation Mincemeat" quite a bit, despite my attachment to the earlier (and obviously, much more highly fictionalized) version from the '50s, "The Man Who Never Was." I especially love Gloria Grahame's big scene, in which she "dictates" the letter to leave on the dead guy's body to make "him" seem more authentic. but I've always…
I liked "Operation Mincemeat" quite a bit, despite my attachment to the earlier (and obviously, much more highly fictionalized) version from the '50s, "The Man Who Never Was." I especially love Gloria Grahame's big scene, in which she "dictates" the letter to leave on the dead guy's body to make "him" seem more authentic. but I've always been a sucker for GG, who was certainly the real deal in Sexy Fifties Movie Stars (maybe it was her unique light lisp that did it for me).
of course, "Operation Mincemeat" is based (yet AGAIN) on one of Ben Macintyre's long list of terrific books about WW II, espionage, etc.
I liked "Operation Mincemeat" quite a bit, despite my attachment to the earlier (and obviously, much more highly fictionalized) version from the '50s, "The Man Who Never Was." I especially love Gloria Grahame's big scene, in which she "dictates" the letter to leave on the dead guy's body to make "him" seem more authentic. but I've always been a sucker for GG, who was certainly the real deal in Sexy Fifties Movie Stars (maybe it was her unique light lisp that did it for me).
of course, "Operation Mincemeat" is based (yet AGAIN) on one of Ben Macintyre's long list of terrific books about WW II, espionage, etc.