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On the Double (1961)
Directed by Melville Shavelson
“You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!”
War, Comedy · 1h 32m
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Cast
Danny Kaye
Ernie Williams
Dana Wynter
Margaret MacKenzie-Smith
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Colonel Somerset
Margaret Rutherford
Lady Vivian
Diana Dors
Bridget Stanhope
Allan Cuthbertson
Captain Patterson
Jesse White
Joseph Praeger
Gregory Walcott
Rock Houston
Terence de Marney
Colin Twickenham
Rex Evans
Carleton Brown Wiffingham
Rudolph Anders
Oberkommandant
Edgar Barrier
Blankmeister
Crew
- Director
- Melville Shavelson
- Writer
- Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
- Director of Photography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Original Music Composer
- Leith Stevens
- Editor
- Frank Bracht
- Producer
- Jack Rose
Details
- Release date
- 1961-05-19
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- War, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Dena Productions, Paramount Pictures