I Was Monty's Double (film)
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| Directed by | John Guillermin |
| Produced by | Maxwell Setton at Walton Studios |
| Screenplay by | Bryan Forbes |
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I Was Monty's Double by M. E. Clifton James |
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| Music by | John Addison |
| Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
| Edited by | Max Benedict |
| Distributed by | Associated British-Pathé Limited |
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Release date
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21 October 1958 (UK) |
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Running time
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99 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
I Was Monty's Double is a 1958 film made by Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). It was directed by John Guillermin. The screenplay was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the autobiography of M. E. Clifton James, an actor who pretended to be General Montgomery as a decoy during the Second World War (see Operation Copperhead)—and who plays himself in the film.
A few months before the D-Day landings during the Second World War, the British government decides to launch a campaign of disinformation; spreading a rumour that the landings just might take place at a location other than Normandy. The details of the operation (actually, there were several such operations) are handed to two intelligence officers, Colonel Logan (Cecil Parker) and Major Harvey (John Mills). They are initially unable to devise such a plan – but one night, Harvey sees an actor at a London theatre, putting on a convincing impression of General Bernard Montgomery.
Logan and Harvey discover that the actor is M. E. Clifton James (who plays himself in the film), a lieutenant stationed in Leicester with the Royal Army Pay Corps and that he was a professional actor in peacetime. He is called to London, on the pretext that he is to make a test for an army film, and a plan is devised that he should tour North Africa, impersonating "Monty".
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