On the Double (1961)
You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!
92 min
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.
- Release date
- May 19, 1961
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- 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
Crew
- Melville Shavelson · Director
- Jack Rose · Writer
- Melville Shavelson · Writer
- Jack Rose · Producer
- Leith Stevens · Composer
- Harry Stradling Sr. · Cinematographer
- Frank Bracht · Editor