On the Double

May. 19,1961      
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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