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6.4/10   166 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Jack Rose (writer)
Melville Shavelson (writer)
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Release Date:
22 December 1961 (Finland) more
Genre:
Tagline:
You'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run!
Plot:
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Danny Kaye movie "On the Double" more (5 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Pfc. Ernie Williams: I'm on a salt-free, fat-free, high protein, low calorie, low cholesterol diet. more
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Soundtrack:
On The Double Polka more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Danny Kaye movie "On the Double", 5 December 2005
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Author: jonssondrx from United States

I must have seen this movie on TV decades ago. It stars Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter and Margaret Rutherford. According to a comment I saw on this movie, it is not available on DVD. I searched on Amazon for it and couldn't find it there. This is one of the funniest movies I ever saw. Danny is doing his usual forged identity. And to add a twist to it, the person he is impersonating has a bad eye and wears a patch, but Danny's bad eye is the opposite eye and he has to wear a contact in his bad eye so he can cover his good eye. The scene where he drops his contact is priceless. Also, the scene when his aunt (Margaret Rutherford) shows up at a party still makes me laugh just thinking about it. Margaret gives an incredible performance, and Danny is at his funniest. I hope it comes on TV again.

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