On the Double

May 19, 1961

1h 32m

★ 7.0

You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!

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.

Genres

War

Comedy

Production Companies

Dena Productions

Paramount Pictures

On the Double Trailers

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Cast

Pfc. Ernie Williams

Danny Kaye

Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Dana Wynter

Colonel Somerset

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Lady Vivian

Margaret Rutherford

Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

Diana Dors

Captain Patterson

Allan Cuthbertson

Corporal Joseph Praeger

Jesse White

Colonel Rock Houston

Gregory Walcott

Sergeant Colin Twickenham

Terence de Marney

General Carleton Brown Wiffingham

Rex Evans

Oberkommandant

Rudolph Anders

Blankmeister

Edgar Barrier

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