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On the Double

(1961)

May 19, 1961 1h 32m
68%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Melville Shavelson

Director

Top Billed Cast

DK

Danny Kaye

Pfc. Ernie Williams

DW

Dana Wynter

Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

WH

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Colonel Somerset

MR

Margaret Rutherford

Lady Vivian

DD

Diana Dors

Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

AC

Allan Cuthbertson

Captain Patterson

JW

Jesse White

Corporal Joseph Praeger

GW

Gregory Walcott

Colonel Rock Houston

TdM

Terence de Marney

Sergeant Colin Twickenham

RE

Rex Evans

General Carleton Brown Wiffingham