Me and the Colonel

IMDb link: 0051915
IMDb rating: 7 (807 votes)
Genres: Comedy, War
Director: Peter Glenville
Cast: Curd Jurgens, Danny Kaye, Francoise Rosay, Nicole Maurey and others

Release date: 1 Oct 1958
Release year: 1958
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: refugee, polish officer, romantic rivalry, escape, anti semitism, world war two, based on play, screenplay adapted by author, nazi, uniform

Plot:

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. Prokoszny learns to appreciate Jacobowsky, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers.

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