Me and the Colonel
Jacobowsky, a refugee, and Prokoszny, a Polish colonel, flee Nazis despite conflicting views. Vying for a woman's affection, they learn to respect each other while outwitting pursuers.
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"I must say, Danny Kaye delivers a very skilful and thoughtful performance as Jacobowsky, and Curt Jurgens is hilarious in his over-the-top display of pompous honor as the military Colonel. In the dangerous and harrowing era of the war it's surprising that any degree of humor could be found in stark situations, but this story does so, and does it well. At times it's downright funny, other times it's delightfully witty, turning life's awkward moments into amusing vignettes. Yet shining throughout is the quality of Kaye's sympathetic character who draws on the inherited w..."
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An earlier film version of the play had been contemplated in the mid 194os at 20th Century Fox, with Elia Kazan directing and Ernst Lubitsch playing Jacobowsky.
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Jacobowsky, a refugee, and Prokoszny, a Polish colonel, flee Nazis despite conflicting views. Vying for a woman's affection, they learn to respect each other while outwitting pursuers.