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On the Double

On the Double

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 19, 1961

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

War, Comedy

User Score

69%

Original Title

On the Double

Production Companies

Dena Productions, Paramount Pictures

Director

Melville Shavelson

Description

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.