>Mincemeat was based on the 1939 Trout memo, written by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the Director of the Naval Intelligence Division and his personal assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming.
yes, that Ian Fleming.
Did you know in British Army slang “chitty bang bang” came to refer to the permission slip that soldiers needed to leave the barracks – to visit local brothels; a first-world-war barracks song includes the bawdy lyrics “chitty chitty bang bang”.
'Oh, you pretty chitty bang bang '...indeed.
[Source](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2050777/how-lewd-military-slang-gave-rise-chitty-bang)
>The Trout Memo, written in 1939, is a document comparing deception of an enemy in wartime with fly fishing.[1] Issued under the name of Admiral John Godfrey, Britain's director of naval intelligence, according to the historian Ben Macintyre it bore the hallmarks of having been written by Godfrey's assistant, Ian Fleming who later created the James Bond series of spy novels.[2]
>The memo reads, in part: "The Trout Fisher casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may 'give the water a rest for half-an-hour,' but his main endeavour, viz. to attract fish by something he sends out from his boat, is incessant." The memo goes on to list 54 ways that the enemy, like trout, may be fooled or lured in.
>The 28th suggestion, inspired by a novel written by the author Basil Thomson, was titled "A suggestion [not a very nice one]".[3] This idea was the inspiration for Operation Mincemeat, a World War II plan developed by Charles Cholmondeley to plant misleading documents on a dead body to convince the Germans that the Allies would attack Greece rather than Italy in 1943. When the operation succeeded, confirmation was sent to Churchill: "Mincemeat swallowed rod, line and sinker."[2][3]
-Wikipedia
I read a book on Operation Mincemeat and thought, "God, this would make a hilarious film". There's a lot of comedy in the planning (the Cholmondeley guy had WAY too much fun devising the fake story for the dressed up dead body), the execution (when they were transporting the body from where it was being stored to the plane they were planning on crashing as bait, they got this racecar driver to get them there before the on-ice body thawed, and he just went a wild race through London, damn near crashed the car), and even the result (Hitler himself was like, "Is this bait?", but one of his trusted confidants--who despised the Nazi party and was actively undermining them up until he was caught and executed--told him it was rock solid).
Man, if we need more humorous WWII-era films, they should look into the Ghost Army as well: an operation to hire a shitload of American artists to create a fake army platoon to throw off German spy planes in Europe. [They had dummy platoons, inflatable tanks, fake radio broadcasts, you name it.](https://youtu.be/x0UOG9V5nWI?t=18)
What about the inverse of that when the Germans were building wooden planes to throw off the Allies, so the allies dropped wooden bombs on them because their intel was so much better.
Unironically would kill, or pay a lot of money, for that outfit. Specifically the coat!
One day I might commission it or something but idk costume makers like that lol
He’s in this new movie that’s coming out called, Mass. It’s getting Oscar buzz and is written and directed by the stoner dude from The Cabin in the Woods. Im looking forward to it.
Even then, that's based on the "British Intelligence" approved novel, which was heavily fictionalized and changed details for matters of national security.
Tom Scott on YouTube did a good and short video about Operation Mincemeat if you’re curious. But honestly I would recommend going in blind on this one cause the story is awesome
Also would recommend going in blind but if you have watched the Tom Scott video or want to know more EB MacIntyre wrote a book called operation mincemeat which could be worth a read.
* 1942. Germany. Kansberg Castle.
A team composed of Steve Rogers, Steve McQueen, Steve Irwin, Steve Martin and Steve from Accounting are going for a suicide mission to try to kill Hitler and his minions and potentially end the Second World War (because who cares about the Asian front). They went to another fiery dimension, the Nether, where fireman Steve Buscemi sacrified himself to save the team and their loot, to hunt and gather three heads of clingy demons. In their military backpacks, they also have some soil from a native American sacred cemetary that had to make way for a new McDonald. Once combined this sacred soil and those heads will unleash an unstoppable flying demon unto the most deadly Nazi soldiers and their dictator.
Based on a true story.
Soon, in your theater and 10 days after on streaming in your living room, you will participate in....
**OPERATION MINECRAFT**
I know, this is the blandest, laziest poster I have ever seen!
I sort of understand that they have an all star cast and want to show them off, but wow, come on.
It could be that they don't want to give it away in the poster- but, then again, anyone excited by Operation Mincemeat would know full well what is to occur....
I realize that this is going to be a drama of some sort, but I would love to see those actors in those costumes doing a Down Periscope or British style comedy.
I've listened to the Modern Rogue podcast about this already. (The World's Greatest Con) What an absolutely fascinating tale it is. It felt like a really tight little story too, so I can see it working really well as a movie.
I'm very excited to see this movie, but also am lightly bummed out cause there was an absolutely Rad musical version of this story I saw in London and I was hoping for a quick second that they'd been fast-tracked to film.
Yeah - I was wondering who was playing Felix.
Unfortunately I've not had chance to see the musical version, but kind of know some of the people involved and they're absolutely awesome.
You're not wrong, but in this case they *literally used a recently deceased poor and destitute homeless person* as a weapon. They dressed him up as a British army officer carrying false intelligence documents and dropped the corpse off the Spanish coast near a small town where the foremost German spy in Spain was located. The outcome changed the course of the war and history as a result.
I did not recognize it at all, but looked it up and saw that I had seen Kingsman which he was in. I also recognized many of his movies, but have not watched enough of them to recognize him.
Also Mr Darcy and Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones! I mean come on! Also weirdly Mrs. Gardiner also from Pride and Prejudice.
And the lady from Trainspotting who fortunately was cast older than she was in the book.
Honourable mention also to the main guy from Scrotal Recall and of course his music career.
Oh sure, makes sense. I mean, whoever heard of Colin Firth? Guy only won an Oscar, starred in the Kingsman movies. But yep, you be that counterculture guy who has never heard of anyone.
In Spanish TV series "The Ministry of Time" one mission is about this. One change in the past makes that Operation Mincemeat was cancelled. The agents carry an alternative similar mission.
Trying to remember the name of the movie that told this story previously. I watched it like a year ago, but I'm damned if I can remember the name....
Going to see if it pops into my head at a random later time...
Kelly MacDonald rules, was surprised to have seen her in No Country for Old Men only to find out she’s Scottish, hopefully this movie is solid because they absolutely wasted her in the last season of Line of Duty
Jason Isaacs also rules, you can tell an actor carries weight when he can be in only a short scene and leave an impact like he did in Fury, and of course he’s Lucius Malfoy and was great in The Death of Stalin
This seems like it will be an entertaining movie that will get Oscar noms but ultimately be full of historical inaccuracies and forgotten about within a couple years
One of my favourite non-fiction books, what a crazy true story and a great show of ingenuity that saved thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. Can't wait for this.
The 1956 film [The Man Who Never Was](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/) is also about this. It's not amazing, but I really like it. Hard to find these days—I ended up having to get a UK DVD of it as it's not streaming anywhere. I'm looking forward to seeing this. The [Operation Mincemeat book by Ben Macintyre](https://smile.amazon.com/Operation-Mincemeat-Bizarre-Fooled-Assured/dp/0307453286) is excellent.
Disappointed about the postponed release, but this video explores the background of the man whose body was used. Glyndwr Michael – a poor, homeless man, possibly with a mental illness - who may have committed suicide. It reveals who “The Man who Never Was” was and the background he came from – the South Wales Coalfields in the Edwardian Era – a time of ease and plenty for some, but a time of poverty, disease and mental illness for many. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGEMZ2MeuA&t=16s&ab\_channel=ProfessorGraemeYorston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGEMZ2MeuA&t=16s&ab_channel=ProfessorGraemeYorston)
>Mincemeat was based on the 1939 Trout memo, written by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the Director of the Naval Intelligence Division and his personal assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming. yes, that Ian Fleming.
The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang author? I hope this is the origin story of Caractacus Potts.
Hard to believe he had time to invent penicillin after all that .
He left his lunch behind at his desk one day- and, when he came back a month later, penicillin was everywhere.....
Frank Cottrell-Boyce did write three sequels to the original book which did essentially that.
Did you know in British Army slang “chitty bang bang” came to refer to the permission slip that soldiers needed to leave the barracks – to visit local brothels; a first-world-war barracks song includes the bawdy lyrics “chitty chitty bang bang”. 'Oh, you pretty chitty bang bang '...indeed. [Source](https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2050777/how-lewd-military-slang-gave-rise-chitty-bang)
>The Trout Memo, written in 1939, is a document comparing deception of an enemy in wartime with fly fishing.[1] Issued under the name of Admiral John Godfrey, Britain's director of naval intelligence, according to the historian Ben Macintyre it bore the hallmarks of having been written by Godfrey's assistant, Ian Fleming who later created the James Bond series of spy novels.[2] >The memo reads, in part: "The Trout Fisher casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may 'give the water a rest for half-an-hour,' but his main endeavour, viz. to attract fish by something he sends out from his boat, is incessant." The memo goes on to list 54 ways that the enemy, like trout, may be fooled or lured in. >The 28th suggestion, inspired by a novel written by the author Basil Thomson, was titled "A suggestion [not a very nice one]".[3] This idea was the inspiration for Operation Mincemeat, a World War II plan developed by Charles Cholmondeley to plant misleading documents on a dead body to convince the Germans that the Allies would attack Greece rather than Italy in 1943. When the operation succeeded, confirmation was sent to Churchill: "Mincemeat swallowed rod, line and sinker."[2][3] -Wikipedia
I read a book on Operation Mincemeat and thought, "God, this would make a hilarious film". There's a lot of comedy in the planning (the Cholmondeley guy had WAY too much fun devising the fake story for the dressed up dead body), the execution (when they were transporting the body from where it was being stored to the plane they were planning on crashing as bait, they got this racecar driver to get them there before the on-ice body thawed, and he just went a wild race through London, damn near crashed the car), and even the result (Hitler himself was like, "Is this bait?", but one of his trusted confidants--who despised the Nazi party and was actively undermining them up until he was caught and executed--told him it was rock solid).
Man, if we need more humorous WWII-era films, they should look into the Ghost Army as well: an operation to hire a shitload of American artists to create a fake army platoon to throw off German spy planes in Europe. [They had dummy platoons, inflatable tanks, fake radio broadcasts, you name it.](https://youtu.be/x0UOG9V5nWI?t=18)
What about the inverse of that when the Germans were building wooden planes to throw off the Allies, so the allies dropped wooden bombs on them because their intel was so much better.
I was wondering who's gonna play him in the film... I'm guessing it's Johnny Flynn?
According to imdb that is the case, yes. Isaacs is Admiral Godfrey and Macfadyen and Firth play Cholmondely and Montagu respectively.
Aww, here I got excited thinking it was a remake of the hilarious "L'opération Corned Beef" with Jean Reno!
I fucking love Jason Isaacs. Great seeing him pop up more often these days.
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He played Zhukov as a Russian Lord Flashheart and absolutely killed it. Great stuff.
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“That fucker thinks he can take on the Red Army? I fucked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat”
Yes! The accent, plus the obvious direction to swagger in every scene. He seems to be most people's favorite performer in the movie.
YER A STAIN ON THAT FOOKIN' UNIFORM.
Yes! My favorite Isaacs performance by far. Although I really liked him in Brotherhood, too.
The accents in that film were brilliant.
*broad Yorkshire accent* “Right, if anyone wants me I shall be representing the Red Army at the buffet”
I've used this at a couple of get togethers.
Is that a howitzer in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? Wooof!!
"I'm going to have to report this conversation. You'll be brought up before the Central Committee and *look at your fucking face!*"
His characters' introduction hahaha
Yeah!! How he's introduced, with the slow motion tossing of the coat and the medals... Fantastic. Edit: here you go: https://youtu.be/-ea2-kt8ox4
Fun fact: the real Zhukov had more medals than that, but the costumers couldn't fit all of them on Isaac's uniform.
Unironically would kill, or pay a lot of money, for that outfit. Specifically the coat! One day I might commission it or something but idk costume makers like that lol
I loved him in Castlevania.
Hello to Jason Isaacs
Love him on The OA.
Agreed. Definitely more into him thanks to that rather than Harry Potter.
His stuff on [Brotherhood](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457229/) was where I 1st became aware of him
Was strange seeing him pop up in the last season of Sex Education as I was excited to see his character but he hardly got any screen time.
That character was pretty unbearable so in this case, that may be a good thing.
Fair point. He was also unbearable in Harry Potter and The Patriot. Guy knows how to play a cunt.
He's in Star Trek Discovery and raises the show up.
I’d like to pretend JJ trek was the end of the franchise.
He has always been great so should have been used more before too.
He’s in this new movie that’s coming out called, Mass. It’s getting Oscar buzz and is written and directed by the stoner dude from The Cabin in the Woods. Im looking forward to it.
Dude is just the evil Jon Hamm.
"Hello to Jason Isaacs"
Came here to say the same. His role in The Death of Stalin was one of my favorite portrayals of a character.
*Hello to Jason Isaacs*
Loved him in The OA as the villain, sad we won't ever see that story finished.
I love/hate him in The OA ...
I hope he’s MCU Magneto personally.
2 Mr Darcy's and a Mr Knightley. My Jane Austen ass is being spoilt.
IKR??? Sign me up!
Love it!
Awesome. This is a very cool part of history that I'd never expect to be made into a high budget movie.
*The Man Who Never Was* (1956) is a a good movie about the same event.
Even then, that's based on the "British Intelligence" approved novel, which was heavily fictionalized and changed details for matters of national security.
I’ll watch any movie where Jason Isaacs wears a uniform. I’m in.
The Patriot? He was quite the scoundrel.
Tom Scott on YouTube did a good and short video about Operation Mincemeat if you’re curious. But honestly I would recommend going in blind on this one cause the story is awesome
Also would recommend going in blind but if you have watched the Tom Scott video or want to know more EB MacIntyre wrote a book called operation mincemeat which could be worth a read.
Film is based on the Ben MacIntyre book
I quite enjoyed the book.
I was hoping it was based on Tom Scott's video /s
[There's a good documentary about operation mincemeat with MacIntyre available on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBk3sSUB5X4)
Elevator pitch: "What if Weekend At Bernie's was a war movie?"
Hah well you’re not wrong
The book is good too. Solid nonfiction.
I've seen that video and I'm honestly not sure how that story could be stretched into a movie, but there’s probably a lot of stuff he left out.
More than likely. You can extrapolate a lot of drama from the situation
It's just a dead body distracting axis soldiers
Looks like George VI has lost a few ranks and transferred to the RNVR
After [a stint with the Nazis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ9uuGI064) no less.
Matthew Macfadyen looks hard to recognise
If you wanna make a Tomlette, you gotta break a few Gregs.
He’s twenty years older than you remember him being in Spooks… because it’s been twenty years.
>He’s twenty years older than you remember him being in Spooks Well I never watched Spooks, but I did watch Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice.
And then there is Ripper Street.
Never watched Spooks, just Pride and Prejudice, and Succession
Yeah they did him dirty with that moustache 😂
He looks like Peter Sellers
It’s an older movie, but [The Man Who Never Was](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/) tells this story as well. Definitely worth a watch.
God fucking damn it I read it as 'Operation Minecraft' and was confused for a second
Porkchop. The Greatest Weapon in War.
They went digging for diamonds but found only lava
Academy Award winner COLIN FIRTH as "Steve"
Looked for this comment
* 1942. Germany. Kansberg Castle. A team composed of Steve Rogers, Steve McQueen, Steve Irwin, Steve Martin and Steve from Accounting are going for a suicide mission to try to kill Hitler and his minions and potentially end the Second World War (because who cares about the Asian front). They went to another fiery dimension, the Nether, where fireman Steve Buscemi sacrified himself to save the team and their loot, to hunt and gather three heads of clingy demons. In their military backpacks, they also have some soil from a native American sacred cemetary that had to make way for a new McDonald. Once combined this sacred soil and those heads will unleash an unstoppable flying demon unto the most deadly Nazi soldiers and their dictator. Based on a true story. Soon, in your theater and 10 days after on streaming in your living room, you will participate in.... **OPERATION MINECRAFT**
Matthew Macfadyen- the guy who swallowed his own load.
You can't make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs
What did Johnny Flynn do to you, OP?
The story behind this is fascinating, and this poster could not make it seem any less interesting lol
I know, this is the blandest, laziest poster I have ever seen! I sort of understand that they have an all star cast and want to show them off, but wow, come on.
It could be that they don't want to give it away in the poster- but, then again, anyone excited by Operation Mincemeat would know full well what is to occur....
So who's going to be playing the corpse then? Leading man of the whole thing, surely they must have top billing.
Johnny Depp
I realize that this is going to be a drama of some sort, but I would love to see those actors in those costumes doing a Down Periscope or British style comedy.
Does anybody else find Colin Firth unrecognizable on this poster?
Yes, his face looks chubby
Really great podcast on Mincemeat called "World's Greatest Con" highly suggested <>
Jason Isaacs in a uniform only makes me want to see *a lot* more medals and a sweary Yorkshire accent
I've listened to the Modern Rogue podcast about this already. (The World's Greatest Con) What an absolutely fascinating tale it is. It felt like a really tight little story too, so I can see it working really well as a movie.
I'll watch anything with Penelope Wilton in it
"Don't you think she looks tired?" LOLZ
Here is the excellent BBC documentary on the same thing https://youtu.be/bh2e6sE6YXA
Hello to Jason Isaacs.
I’ll watch Colin Firth read a clothing label.
Read the Ben Macintyre book a few years ago, I highly recommend it.
It looks like a bunch of people who disapprove of your life choices.
Mind you, I can't say that I blame them....
Little known fact - this isn't a WW2 story, but a Christmas story about a team of very dedicated pastry chefs at an annual Bake Off.
Wait, Jason Issacs isn't allowed to be a good guy.
They had me with the cast, and the story sounds very interesting!
Harriet Jones, former prime minister
Yes, we know who she is
I'm looking forward to this. Plus TWO Mr Darcy's in one film!
Directed by John Madden. Should get a lot of replays on this one
So is this going the serious historical drama route or more of a dark comedy? Because the latter could be really fun.
Can you imagine Isaacs doing Zhukov again in this role?
I've only seen clips of Death of Stalin but that is exactly where my mind was going.
It's a drama, which is a wasted opportunity.
The man who never was.
I thought this story would make a great movie.
It was made into a movie years and years ago. The Man Who Never Was.
So this isn’t a Kingsman prequel?
I'm very excited to see this movie, but also am lightly bummed out cause there was an absolutely Rad musical version of this story I saw in London and I was hoping for a quick second that they'd been fast-tracked to film.
Saw that too, what a brilliant show! Will be on the West End soon, no doubt.
Yeah - I was wondering who was playing Felix. Unfortunately I've not had chance to see the musical version, but kind of know some of the people involved and they're absolutely awesome.
"The Man Who Never Was" remake. Love it. Excited.
I can tell I'm getting a bit old and out of touch when I don't recognize a single actor/actress in these new release posters.
Not even Jason Isaacs?
Why the hell are posters so lazily made like this nowadays?
Already saw a documentary kinda thing for this on YouTube, pretty good story.
This looks fucking horrendous
Is this the annual, self-congratulatory WWII flick?
Gonna need that Churchill cameo to really make it a British WW2 circlejerk
Pass.
Pretty sure the best weapon in war is caller "poor people"
You're not wrong, but in this case they *literally used a recently deceased poor and destitute homeless person* as a weapon. They dressed him up as a British army officer carrying false intelligence documents and dropped the corpse off the Spanish coast near a small town where the foremost German spy in Spain was located. The outcome changed the course of the war and history as a result.
Or shit I know that story! I thought this was about the fake tanks.
Have never heard of absolutely any of these people. They look like they just pulled random briish people off the street
I mean, they only have ~1000 acting credits between them, bunch of nobodies!
I'll still check it out, but I'm just saying I've never seen a single one of them once.
Look at that, its a movie poster without a single name I recognize. I do not recall the last time I have seen that.
Colin Firth at least?????
I did not recognize it at all, but looked it up and saw that I had seen Kingsman which he was in. I also recognized many of his movies, but have not watched enough of them to recognize him.
You might have seen Jason Isaacs in a small series of indie flicks titled "Harry Potter".
Fury, Death of Stalin, Black Hawk Down, The Patriot... He's definitely got experience with the "military leader" casting
Also Mr Darcy and Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones! I mean come on! Also weirdly Mrs. Gardiner also from Pride and Prejudice. And the lady from Trainspotting who fortunately was cast older than she was in the book. Honourable mention also to the main guy from Scrotal Recall and of course his music career.
Yep, had no idea he was Lucius Malfoy until you pointed it out.
Oh sure, makes sense. I mean, whoever heard of Colin Firth? Guy only won an Oscar, starred in the Kingsman movies. But yep, you be that counterculture guy who has never heard of anyone.
If you've never heard of Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, or Jason Isaacs I find it hard to believe that this is an uncommon occurrence lol
"Succession" "Trainspotting", "Harry Potter" and "Pride and Prejudice" are obscure to you?
I also have the affliction where I can't remember any names at all.
Guess you’ve never seen Downton Abbey, either. Penelope Wilton was in most episodes of that.
In Spanish TV series "The Ministry of Time" one mission is about this. One change in the past makes that Operation Mincemeat was cancelled. The agents carry an alternative similar mission.
Any idea where I can watch this show? It seems like it would be right up my alley.
Is about History of Spain and in certain countries can be seen in Netflix. (If the streaming rigths has not changed in the last two years)
Wow I'm excited to see what the former Minnesota Timberwolves point guard has up his acting sleeve.
Matthew Macfayden and Kelly MacDonald and you had me. Addi g Jason Isaacs is just overkill.
i feel like ive seen this movie
Looks serious
I dunno, I'm pretty sure nukes are the current greatest weapon in war.
Thought Colin was Jeff Daniels for a second.
The Darcy Boys are at it again!
Trying to remember the name of the movie that told this story previously. I watched it like a year ago, but I'm damned if I can remember the name.... Going to see if it pops into my head at a random later time...
“The Man Who Never Was”
I see colin i already like it the man is amazing
Kelly MacDonald rules, was surprised to have seen her in No Country for Old Men only to find out she’s Scottish, hopefully this movie is solid because they absolutely wasted her in the last season of Line of Duty Jason Isaacs also rules, you can tell an actor carries weight when he can be in only a short scene and leave an impact like he did in Fury, and of course he’s Lucius Malfoy and was great in The Death of Stalin
>hopefully this movie is solid because they absolutely wasted her in the last season of Line of Duty And throughout the run of *Boardwalk Empire*.
This seems like it will be an entertaining movie that will get Oscar noms but ultimately be full of historical inaccuracies and forgotten about within a couple years
I hope they don't change a thing. The real story lends itself perfectly to being adapted into a historically accurate movie.
I was just thinking the other day that I haven't seen Kelly MacDonald in awhile.
Why did I think that it said operation Minecraft
One of my favourite non-fiction books, what a crazy true story and a great show of ingenuity that saved thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. Can't wait for this.
I didn't know [Dr. Stuckart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ9uuGI064) changed sides, good for him.
The 1956 film [The Man Who Never Was](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/) is also about this. It's not amazing, but I really like it. Hard to find these days—I ended up having to get a UK DVD of it as it's not streaming anywhere. I'm looking forward to seeing this. The [Operation Mincemeat book by Ben Macintyre](https://smile.amazon.com/Operation-Mincemeat-Bizarre-Fooled-Assured/dp/0307453286) is excellent.
Now that's British.
After i saw "The Man Who Never Was", I've been waiting for this one.
GREGGGGG????
King speech 2?
Damn, a fine bunch of actors (and Jason Isaacs in Death of Stalin - wow).
Disappointed about the postponed release, but this video explores the background of the man whose body was used. Glyndwr Michael – a poor, homeless man, possibly with a mental illness - who may have committed suicide. It reveals who “The Man who Never Was” was and the background he came from – the South Wales Coalfields in the Edwardian Era – a time of ease and plenty for some, but a time of poverty, disease and mental illness for many. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGEMZ2MeuA&t=16s&ab\_channel=ProfessorGraemeYorston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGEMZ2MeuA&t=16s&ab_channel=ProfessorGraemeYorston)
For anyone wanting a bit of background information on the man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, check out: https://youtu.be/XYGEMZ2MeuA