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Operation Mincemeat: Directed by John Madden. With Rufus Wright, Matthew Macfadyen, Ruby Bentall, Charlotte Hamblin. During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.
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- Drama, War
- John Madden
- 2022-05-11
Operation Mincemeat is a 2021 British war drama film directed by John Madden. It is based upon Ben Macintyre's book on the British Operation Mincemeat during the Second World War. The film stars Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs.
- Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu
- Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley
- Kelly Macdonald as Jean Leslie
- Penelope Wilton as Hester Leggett
- Jason Isaacs as John Godfrey
- Johnny Flynn as Ian Fleming
Colin Firth stars as Ewen Montagu, a Commanding Officer in the Naval Intelligence Division who helped come up with the idea for Operation Mincemeat. Before his involvement in WWII, Montagu served as a machine gun instructor in the First World War and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard University. After his work on Operation Mincemea...
Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley, the other mastermind behind Operation Mincemeat, is played by Matthew MacFayden. Cholmondeley originally proposed an idea to drop a dead man attached to a parachute into France with a radio intended for the Germans to find which could then be used to feed them misinformation. Though this initial plan wasn’t u...
Kelly Macdonaldplays Jean Leslie, an MI5 secretary whose photograph was crucial to the success of the operation. To make their ruse believable, the team behind Operation Mincemeat had to make their fake dead officer appear to be a person with a rich life and history. They gave him the name Captain William Martin and crafted a fake fiance for him na...
Another woman who helped bring Pam to life was Hester Leggett played by Penelope Wilton. Legget was the leader of the secretarial unit where Jean Leslie worked. Leggett was a fierce woman strongly dedicated to her work. When the team needed fake love letters to plant on Captain Martin, the job of writing them fell to Legget. The official report on ...
Jason Isaacsplays Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Britain's director of naval intelligence during WWII. In 1939, Godfrey crafted a document titled the Trout Memo. In the memo, Godfrey compared the wartime deception of enemies to fly-fishing. The 28th suggestion in the memo detailed an idea to plant misleading papers on a dead body and leave it for the e...
The creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, is portrayed by Johnny Flynn. Before he became a best-selling spy novelist, Fleming served in WWII as John Godfrey’s assistant. In his work as Godfrey’s assistant, Fleming served as a liaison to several wartime administrations including the Secret Intelligence Service and the Prime Minister's staff. Though th...
Apr 13, 2022 · Who's in the cast of Operation Mincemeat? Colin Firth leads the cast as Naval Intelligence Officer Ewen Montagu. He is joined by Kelly Macdonald as Jean Leslie, Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley, Penelope Wilton as Hester Leggett, Johnny Flynn as James Bond author Ian Fleming, Lorne MacFadyen as Roger Dearborn, and Jason Isaacs as Naval ...
May 6, 2022 · Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to alter the course of the war -- defying logic, risking countless thousands of lives, and testing the nerves of its...
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- War, History, Drama
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Operation Mincemeat is a 2021 British war drama film directed by John Madden. It is based upon Ben Macintyre's book on the British Operation Mincemeat during the Second World War. The film stars Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs.
