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Me and the Colonel is a 1958 American comedy film based on the play Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens and Nicole Maurey. Kaye won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his portrayal.
Me and the Colonel: Directed by Peter Glenville. With Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay. Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye), a Jewish refugee, flees from the Germans with Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jurgens), an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England.
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- Comedy, War
- Peter Glenville
- 1958-10
A forgotten oddity from the long postwar period leading up to the American New Wave of the '60s, Peter Glenville's Me and the Colonel (1958) is in many ways a movie lost to time, caught between the Nazi-farce of Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942) and the later, reality-confronting chill that would evolve with the '60s, the Eichmann ...
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye) is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jurgens), who ...
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- Peter Glenville
- Comedy
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews.
Danny Panics the Wehrmacht in his own brand of war! Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews.
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan. In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he commanders the car of a Polish colonel who hates Jews. In order to save himself, the colonel helps the fellow escape. En route, they pick up the officer's girl friend.
