On the Double
19/05/1961
2h



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.
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
Blankmeister
Pamela Light
Mrs. Somerset


Ben Astar
General Zlinkov
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