On the Double (1961)
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.
- Released
- 1961-05-19
- Genres
- War, Comedy
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Melville Shavelson
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 20 votes
Cast
- Danny Kaye as Ernie Williams
- Dana Wynter as Margaret MacKenzie-Smith
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Somerset
- Margaret Rutherford as Lady Vivian
- Diana Dors as Bridget Stanhope
- Allan Cuthbertson as Captain Patterson
- Jesse White as Joseph Praeger
- Gregory Walcott as Rock Houston
- Terence de Marney as Colin Twickenham
- Rex Evans as Carleton Brown Wiffingham
- Rudolph Anders as Oberkommandant
- Edgar Barrier as Blankmeister
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