

On the Double
DirectorMelville Shavelson
“You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!”
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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Cast

Danny Kaye
Pfc. Ernie Williams

Dana Wynter
Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Colonel Somerset

Margaret Rutherford
Lady Vivian

Diana Dors
Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

Allan Cuthbertson
Captain Patterson

Jesse White
Corporal Joseph Praeger

Gregory Walcott
Colonel Rock Houston

Terence de Marney
Sergeant Colin Twickenham

Rex Evans
General Carleton Brown Wiffingham

Rudolph Anders
Oberkommandant

Edgar Barrier
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