Sunday, August 12, 2018

On the Double (1961), 6 {nm}

At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London.
1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, War | 19 May 1961 | Color, WS
Director: Melville Shavelson
Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors.
Bill Foster ... stager: musical numbers

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055253/
Bootleg, ok copy. Didn't want to play in my BD player, might be in PAL format.

In Soundtracks, 4 songs performed & 2 more written by Sylvia Fine. I'm not sure he sang more than 1 song completely. Not sure what the 'stager of musical numbers' did.

This is a standard DK comedy, appropriately overdone. I don't love it, don't hate it. Can't think of any reason I'd choose to watch it...maybe the chemistry between DK & DW. MR plays a tough bird, so that's not as fun as when she's totally daffy.

Dena Prod., distr. Paramount, dir. Shavelson; 6