The incredible true story of how a bunch of writers, artists, set designers, and back room technicians pooled their talents in order to outwit the German High Command and fool Hitler. Espionage, counterespionage, decoy airfields, inflatable tanks, guns, and soldiers are all deployed in the run up to D-Day to create a massive diversion and the strongest possible indication that the landings will be in Calais rather than Normandy. A whole invisible army is conjured up: FUSAG, the First US Army Group. Major General Patton is placed in charge of this army, such is its importance he is detained in Britain for several weeks after the Normandy landings in order to successfully convince Hitler that a second and larger set of landings will be staged in Calais.
as Lieutenant Colonel Strangeways
as Colonel Turner
as Sergeant Granger
as Major Barkus
as Lady Elizabeth Clemens
as Dennis Wheatley
as Brigadier Boyson
as Major T.A. Robertson
as General Mansfield
as Private Williams
as Vicar
as General Stimson
as Colonel Bevan
as Douglas Fairbanks Jr
as Corporal Collins
as General Parker
as Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke
as General Patton
as Agent Haddock
as BBC Radio Reporter
as Felicity
as MP (uncredited)
as RAF Technician (uncredited)
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