I was Monty's Double!

Discussion in 'General' started by adamcotton, Sep 12, 2009.

  1. adamcotton

    adamcotton Senior Member

    Hi all,

    Watched again the movie "I was Monty's Double" on Dave channel yesterday, and it got me wondering how much of what was shown on screen was actually true? I know the story was essentially correct, but it did occur to me that dramatic licence may have been taken.

    Anyone have any knowledge of the full facts?

    Adam
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Monty's 'real' double was recruited by David Niven no less during WW2 for the deception and after the war wrote the book 'I was Monty's Double' that later became the film you watched.

    I believe he was only really active on Gib during WW2 as British Intel knew the place was alive with German Spies and the like so the got him to spout loads of rubbish to try to confuse the Germans as to what was going on. I'm not so sure there was ever a plan to capture Monty though.

    This story always reminds me of the dead chap they hand cuffed some invasion plans to in a brief case and dropped him in the Med on the hope the Germans would find the body.
     
  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Just did a search and spot the differance:

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  4. Owen

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  6. levien

    levien Just a member

    This story always reminds me of the dead chap they hand cuffed some invasion plans to in a brief case and dropped him in the Med on the hope the Germans would find the body.

    Wasn't he dropped somewhere in the Atlantic off the coast of Spain?

    Levien.
     
  7. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  8. levien

    levien Just a member

    My mistake.....It was Huelva just up the coast from Gib.

    It was called Operation 'Mincemeat'
    Operation Mincemeat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    Long ago I read a book about that operation. I was and still am respectfully amazed by the thoroughness (spelled right?) of the British service that carried out the operation.

    Levien.
     
  9. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    I Was Monty's Treble


    I have the CD somewhere....they don't make 'em like this anymore, you can't get the wood you know.

    "
    Peter (German): Mm. Then our suspicions are vell founded. Last night General Montgomery was seen talking to a voluptuous woman in za Edgware Road. At zea same time he was seen talking to an exotic woman in Cairo. A second later 'e ver seen talking to a ravishing blonde in Barcelona. Gentlemen, who were these men?"
     
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  11. Buteman

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  13. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

     
  14. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    channel 4 mate
     
  15. Wills

    Wills Very Senior Member

  16. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    channel 4 mate
    Thanks.
     
  17. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

  18. Wills

    Wills Very Senior Member

  19. Bond

    Bond Senior Member

    The film and the book are both very good, but have little in common, with both having incidents that don't occur in both. A fascinating part of WWII history all the same.
     
  20. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    The War Illustrated - 9th November 1945...

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