Unternehmen Pappkamerad (1961)

Unternehmen Pappkamerad: Directed by Melville Shavelson. With Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford. 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.

“I was 14 and saw On The Double when it first came out and was impressed then by the regal beauty of Dana Wynter who was always playing Lady this or Mrs. that and always in the upper class of the United Kingdom. I also thought Danny Kaye was pretty funny.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn The Double gives Kaye his usual stage for patter and mimicry. The mimicry is most important because Kaye is asked to impersonate a one eyed British general who he bares a resemblance to. Kaye does other imitations like Churchill and Hitler. Iu0026#39;ll bet could have come up with a mean FDR had he the occasion to. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe one he doesnu0026#39;t fool is the generalu0026#39;s wife played by Dana Wynter who has put up with his frequent infidelities. Something about Kaye does touch her. Itu0026#39;s always that we with movie comedians who play nebbishes, but funny nebbishes whether itu0026#39;s Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis or Danny Kaye.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWynter gets into the spirit of things and at a very posh society party in an incident precipitated by Margaret Rutherford turns into an old fashioned food fight that John Belushi couldnu0026#39;t have handled better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBritainu0026#39;s Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors is also on hand as the shapely sergeant that the general is having his current fling with. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn The Double is not the best of Danny Kaye films, yet his legion of fans will find it suits their taste admirably.”