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On the Double (1961) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 19, 1961

Original Title:
On the Double

Alternate Titles:
Un Generale e Mezzo
Unternehmen Pappkamerad

Genres:
Comedy | War

Production Companies:
Dena Productions
Paramount Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 92

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Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Arthur Lonergan
Hal Pereira

Assistant Director:
Arthur Jacobson
Harry Caplan

Costume Design:
Edith Head

Director:
Melville Shavelson

Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.

Editor:
Frank Bracht

Hair Supervisor:
Nellie Manley

Makeup Supervisor:
Wally Westmore

Original Music Composer:
Leith Stevens

Producer:
Jack Rose

Set Decoration:
Sam Comer
Frank R. McKelvy

Sound Recordist:
Lyle Figland
John Wilkinson

Writer:
Melville Shavelson
Jack Rose

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