At the time of the invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British general in order to confuse German spies and assassins in London.At the time of the invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British general in order to confuse German spies and assassins in London.At the time of the invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British general in order to confuse German spies and assassins in London.
Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Colonel Somerset
- (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Diana Dors
- Sergeant Bridget Stanhope
- (as Miss Diana Dors)
Terence de Marney
- Sergeant Colin Twickenham
- (as Terence De Marney)
Bobby Watson
- Adolf Hitler
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAlthough most of the film was made on a Hollywood sound-stage, there were several days of location shooting in London with a British camera team; this period marked the first-ever use of Panavision cameras in Britain.
- GoofsThe real General is seen boarding a US transport plane. The aircraft clearly has an incorrect paint scheme and, much more problematic, is a Fairchild C-82. A type that first flew months after D-Day while the film is set sometime before.
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Pfc. Ernie Williams: I'm on a salt-free, fat-free, high protein, low calorie, low cholesterol diet.
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Masters: Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter (1996)
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Danny Kaye doubling it up
The tempo is unusually fast here for a Danny Kaye film, as you had learned to take it more easy with his films like "Me and the Colonel" and the very serious "Five Pennies", but apparently he agreed to return to professional hilarious farce again and with a vengeance. It's all British although there are a few Americans in it as well, but the relief of the film and what saves it is the lovely Dana Wynter, wife of the monstrous general he has to impersonate, who hated her husband and came back home just to divorce him, but found Danny Kasye instead as something of her husband's better alter ego. They both appear together in the beginning of the film in the first of many hilarious scenes, but he is never heard of again, while the fake conquers the scene. The top hilarious scene is when he gets kidnapped to Germany and has to go through all kinds of ordeals, turning them to great slapstick fun, until he faces his own assassins. Actually, you miss the serious Danny Kaye here from his two previous films, to which genre he never returned. He was funniest as a clown but he proved his artistic worth best in those two changeling films.
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- Unternehmen Pappkamerad
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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