Watch On The Double (1961) Free Online

Release Date: 1961

Cast: Allan Cuthbertson, Diana Dors, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jesse White, Danny Kaye, Margaret Rutherford, Dana Wynter, Gregory Walcott

Categories: Movies, Action, Action/Adventure, Comedy, War film, Comedy of Errors

On The Double is a 1961 film, directed by Melville Shavelson, who also wrote the screenplay with Jack Rose. It stars Danny Kaye who plays, as in many of his films, two roles — in this case, an American soldier and a British General. The year is 1944. The place is an Allied army camp in southeast England, full of soldiers waiting for the D-day invasion. Enter Ernie Williams, a most reluctant American soldier. A hypochondriac and a coward, Ernie does have one talent; he's a superb mimic. One night in the mess, he is persuaded to impersonate the commander, General Sir Lawrence MacKenzie... MORE

On The Double is a 1961 film, directed by Melville Shavelson, who also wrote the screenplay with Jack Rose. It stars Danny Kaye who plays, as in many of his films, two roles — in this case, an American soldier and a British General. The year is 1944. The place is an Allied army camp in southeast England, full of soldiers waiting for the D-day invasion. Enter Ernie Williams, a most reluctant American soldier. A hypochondriac and a coward, Ernie does have one talent; he's a superb mimic. One night in the mess, he is persuaded to impersonate the commander, General Sir Lawrence MacKenzie Smith. Using this persona, he attempts to go AWOL, but does not get further than the gate. With a court-martial staring him in the face for impersonating an officer, Ernie is in big trouble. But Colonel Somerset (Wilfrid Hyde-White) of Military Intelligence recruits Ernie for "Operation Dead Pigeon". He is to impersonate the General (to whom he has a striking resemblance) for real, in order to flush out a suspected plot to kill the General, and unmask several officers known to be German agents. Ernie is unable to fool the General's wife, Lady Margaret (Dana Wynter), but he is able to deceive the LESS