On the Double

On the Double

92 mins | Comedy, War | May 19, 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.

On the Double

92 mins | Comedy, War | May 19, 1961

On the Double
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Paramount, Dena Productions
Original title On the Double
Directors Arthur Jacobson, Harry Caplan, Melville Shavelson
Writers Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson

Cast

Danny Kaye

as Pfc. Ernie Williams

Dana Wynter

as Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Wilfrid Hyde-White

as Colonel Somerset

Margaret Rutherford

as Lady Vivian

Diana Dors

as Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

Allan Cuthbertson

as Captain Patterson

Jesse White

as Corporal Joseph Praeger

Gregory Walcott

as Colonel Rock Houston

Terence de Marney

as Sergeant Colin Twickenham

Rex Evans

as General Carleton Brown Wiffingham

Rudolph Anders

as Oberkommandant

Edgar Barrier

as Blankmeister

Pamela Light

as Mrs. Somerset

Ben Astar

as General Zlinkov