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On the Double(1961)
Status: Released
Date: 1961-05-19
69%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 32m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Dena Productions
Movie: On the Double
Top 10 Billed 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
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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.
Release Date
1961-05-19
Average
6.9
Rating:
3.5 startsTagline
You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!
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