Fooling Hitler
24/10/2004
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.
Movie Information
Jason Durr
as Lieutenant Colonel Strangeways
Howard Attfield
as Colonel Turner
Grant Burgin
as Sergeant Granger
Dorian Healy
as Major Barkus
Coral Beed
as Lady Elizabeth Clemens
Peter Pacey
as Dennis Wheatley
Nigel Williams
as Brigadier Boyson
Roger Barclay
as Major T.A. Robertson
Peter Wickham
as General Mansfield
Matt Canavan
as Private Williams
Kieron Jecchinis
as Vicar
Jeff Harding
as General Stimson
Richard Lintern
as Colonel Bevan
Richard Wills-Cotton
as Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Daniel Hart
as Corporal Collins
Angus MacInnes
as General Parker
Tim Goodman
as Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke
James Carroll Jordan
as General Patton
Richard Hodder
as Agent Haddock
David Acton
as BBC Radio Reporter
Clara Francis
as Felicity
Paul T.T. Easter
as MP (uncredited)
Alex Helm
as RAF Technician (uncredited)
Tara Summers
as (uncredited)
