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Feature film — 1961

On the Double (1961)

6.91h 32mWar — Comedy

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.

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Dena Productions / Paramount Pictures

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Director: Melville Shavelson

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Cast & crew

Danny Kaye as Ernie Williams

Danny Kaye

Ernie Williams

Dana Wynter as Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Dana Wynter

Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Somerset

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Colonel Somerset

Margaret Rutherford as Lady Vivian

Margaret Rutherford

Lady Vivian

Diana Dors as Bridget Stanhope

Diana Dors

Bridget Stanhope

Allan Cuthbertson as Captain Patterson

Allan Cuthbertson

Captain Patterson

Jesse White as Joseph Praeger

Jesse White

Joseph Praeger

Gregory Walcott as Rock Houston

Gregory Walcott

Rock Houston

Terence de Marney as Colin Twickenham

Terence de Marney

Colin Twickenham

Rex Evans as Carleton Brown Wiffingham

Rex Evans

Carleton Brown Wiffingham

Rudolph Anders as Oberkommandant

Rudolph Anders

Oberkommandant

Edgar Barrier as Blankmeister

Edgar Barrier

Blankmeister

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