The Great Impostor (1960) on Netflix
Ferdinand Waldo Demara drops out of high school and enlists in the United States Army. Denied officer training for lack of a diploma, he invents credentials to join the Marine Corps.
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Ferdinand Waldo Demara moves through life under names that are not his own, taking work in one occupation after another and supplying the papers each one requires. The impersonations are not for profit; he wants to live other lives than the one he has. He leaves high school, enlists in the United States Army, and is refused officer training because he has no diploma. He forges the credentials he lacks and signs on with the United States Marine Corps.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Great Impostor (1960)
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- The film is based on the real impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara, loosely drawn from Robert Crichton's 1959 biography of him; it only generally follows Demara's exploits and is much lighter in tone than the book.
