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Ich war Montys Double

Originaltitel: I Was Monty's Double
  • 1958
  • 1 Std. 41 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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Ich war Montys Double (1958)
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDuring World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence.

  • Regie
    • John Guillermin
  • Drehbuch
    • Bryan Forbes
    • M.E. Clifton James
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • M.E. Clifton James
    • John Mills
    • Cecil Parker
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,9/10
    1764
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • John Guillermin
    • Drehbuch
      • Bryan Forbes
      • M.E. Clifton James
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • M.E. Clifton James
      • John Mills
      • Cecil Parker
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  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    M.E. Clifton James
    M.E. Clifton James
    • M.E. Clifton James
    • (as M. E. Clifton James)
    • …
    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Major Harvey
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Col. Logan
    Patrick Allen
    Patrick Allen
    • Col. Mathers
    Patrick Holt
    Patrick Holt
    • Col. Dawson
    Leslie Phillips
    Leslie Phillips
    • Major Tennant
    Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern
    • Governor of Gibraltar
    Marius Goring
    Marius Goring
    • Nielson
    Barbara Hicks
    Barbara Hicks
    • Hester
    Duncan Lamont
    Duncan Lamont
    • Wing Cdr. Bates
    Anthony Sagar
    • Guard Sergeant (Villa)
    John Gale
    • Flight Lt. Osborne
    Kenneth J. Warren
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    • (as Kenneth Warren)
    • …
    James Hayter
    James Hayter
    • Sgt. Adams
    Sidney James
    Sidney James
    • Porter Y.M.C.A.
    Brian Weske
    Brian Weske
    • Despatch Rider
    Harry Fowler
    Harry Fowler
    • Civilian (End Scene)
    Martin Shaban
    • War Correspondent
    • Regie
      • John Guillermin
    • Drehbuch
      • Bryan Forbes
      • M.E. Clifton James
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    7ma-cortes

    A riveting and sympathetic account of how an actor passed as General Bernard L. Montgomery

    During World War II, a British actor (M A Clifton James who wrote and performed himself in the movie) is assigned by two Colonels (Cecil Parker , John Mills) to impersonate Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse and amaze the German intelligence in an attempt to make the Nazis believe that the invasion of Europe would come from North Africa . The Gigantic Hoax of World War II. You too , could have been fooled!

    This is the true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery to mislead the Germans about their real intentions before the Normandy invasion . This great deception actually made Hitler hold a Panzer Division in the South of France . Interesting and compelling screenplay from Brian Forbes based on the book by M. E. Clifton James himself , it's a competently written piece of work . The only point in the scenario which may annoy to scholars of history turns out to be the fictional attempted kidnapping of Montgomery by the Nazis . The actual final was more amazing : James who had been seconded from an Army office went back to his base and he was arrested as a deserter . The main entertainment of the movie results to be to discover who notorious British seconday actor is appearing here and there , including the following ones : Patrick Allen , Patrick Holt , Leslie Phillips, Michael Hordern , Marius Goring , Barbara Hicks , Duncan Lamont , James Hayter , Sidney James, Bill Nagy , Edward Judd , Victor Maddern , Vera Day , Brian Forbes , Alfie Bass , John Le Mesurier , Walter Gotell , Allan Cuthbertson and Steven Berkoff who nowadays goes on playing .

    This fascinating WWII movie was compact and professionally directed by John Guillermin . He had a long career , as John directed all kinds of genres , such as : Disaster films ( Skyjacked , King Kong, Kong lives ) , Airplane movies (Blue Max) , adventures ( Tarzan in India , Tarzan's greatest adventure , Sheena ) , Wartime ( Bridge of Remangen , Guns at Batasi , I was Monty's double ) and intrigue ( Death on the Nile , Shaft in Africa , The whole truth ) . John Guillermin usually worked with George Peppard in various films ( such as P. J , House of cards and Blue Max) and Peter Sellers (Never let go , Walz of the Toreadors) , being his last one , a Western title The Tracker (1988) with Kris Kristofferson . Rating : 7/10. Better than average , well worth watching . Essential and indispensable seeing for WWII enthusiasts.
    7bkoganbing

    'Monty's' Grand Tour

    With some considerable dramatic license the story of one of the best intelligence operations of World War II is told in I Was Monty's Double. The film is based on the book by actor F.E. Clifton James who plays himself and Bernard Law Montgomery as he did for a fateful few weeks in World War II.

    John Mills and Cecil Parker two officers from British Intelligence become James's handlers in the terminology we would use today. Mills while attending a service variety show sees James do a walk on as Field Marshal Montgomery and is struck by the audience reaction to him. The germ of an idea comes to Mills to have the actor play Montgomery for the widest audience possible, to give him a grand tour of the various fronts of the war. This in order to divert Nazi attention from the United Kingdom where the cross channel invasion is being prepared and Montgomery very much a part of the planning. In fact you can see some of his real role there in the TV mini-series Ike and in The Longest Day.

    Of course James carried the masquerade off beautifully. My favorite scene is James at a press conference in Cairo with allied war correspondents where he's at first hesitant with this cynical bunch, but grows in confidence and wins them over with a speech that you might have seen the real Bernard Law Montgomery deliver during his lifetime.

    Two others who give noteworthy performances in the film are Michael Hordern as the Governor General of Gibraltar and Marius Goring who is a German agent whom Mills, Parker and James deliberately give misinformation to in order to confirm how effective the plan is working.

    The whole business in the end is pure fiction which I won't reveal, but that doesn't detract from making this a first rate account of an amazing adventure. One even Stephen Spielberg would envy.
    9Goingbegging

    Modest hero

    At the fag-end of the 50's, a generation of long-demobbed soldiers were still trying to cut it in uniform, in a spate of cheap black-and-white war films. More convincing than most was the unknown star of this true story, a minor Australian actor who had been rejected by the entertainment services, and was reluctantly pen-pushing in the pay office, when someone noticed that he was a dead ringer for Montgomery.

    This was in the run-up to D-Day, when the allies were desperate to draw enemy attention away from Normandy as the obvious invasion zone. Might a Monty-lookalike be able to fool German intelligence by touring North Africa, as though preparing for a big Mediterranean landing instead?

    The actor in question, M.E. Clifton James, is secretly employed as a driver on Monty's staff, in order to get close enough to study his speech and mannerisms. But he doubts his own ability to replicate the character and personality of the great man, not least because 'Jimmy' is a chain-smoking alcoholic. Eventually, jolly optimist John Mills persuades him to go through with it, and suddenly he's stepping off a plane in Gibraltar, under scrutiny from enemy agents (one of them brilliantly sinister, as played by Marius Goring), as well as certain officers who remember Monty from before the war.

    Defying many attempts on his life, Jimmy overcomes his desperate shyness, and learns to take massed salutes from whole armies. Then all too soon, D-Day has come and gone, his one brief star-performance is over, and it's back to the humble pay office. Except... they felt it necessary to bolt-on a false ending, about which we can reveal nothing, except that it never happened.

    As for the real-life outcome, we have to face the disappointing fact that it was only part of a much larger decoy operation, which did throw the enemy into some confusion, but reports of Jimmy's own effort reaching Hitler's desk seem to be wishful thinking.

    The film displays some recognisable weaknesses of those low-budget productions. The over-long opening section is taken up with John Mills' various flirtations, whose only consequence for the story is that his humourless boss (Cecil Parker) decides to replace their seductive secretary with the ugly-beautiful Barbara Hicks, in some ways more arresting. And the way Mills and Parker chat freely in public about top secret plans will grate on the ear of anyone who has worked in intelligence. No war-film of its day was complete without the stuffed-shirt spoilsport Allan Cuthbertson, who duly pops-up here, as does the perennial plug-ugly sergeant Anthony Sagar. Jimmy's one meeting with Monty is awkwardly dodged; we simply cut away from him on the steps of the general's caravan, although split-screen techniques had long since enabled an actor to shake hands with his own double (try the 1937 'Prisoner of Zenda').

    None of this really detracts from the joy of the film, principally the deeply-believable performance of a professional actor, acting himself acting Monty. Sympathy and charm shine through this modest man, who seems to have been shabbily treated after the war, when he was reduced to the dole. Hopefully this popular film brought a little benison for the five short years that remained to him.
    8hedgehog-10

    A well made film about real-life events.

    It helped in this film to have the actual person that really did impersonate Montgomery. Clifton James give a good performance as both himself and Montgomery. An excellent Bryan Forbes script that is well delivered by Cecil Parker and John Mills.
    Phil_Chester

    Perfect Sunday afternoon film

    Exactly the sort of film they don't make any more. A fun tale of low-key derring-do. The always excellent John Mills is the main draw, but there are also fabulous turns from some of the best known British character players of the mid-20th Century. Overall, the film makes for perfect lazy Sunday afternoon viewing.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The screenplay omits David Niven's part in the real operation. It was he, working for the Army's film unit as a Lieutenant Colonel, who first made contact with M.E. Clifton James. His role is taken in this movie by Major Harvey (Sir John Mills).
    • Patzer
      Soldiers refer to the Queen's Regulations, whereas at this time they should be the King's Regulations (King George VI).
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      [last lines]

      Civilian: [angrily after bumping into James outside a cinema] Why don't you watch where you're going! Who do you think you are?

      Major Harvey: [to James after the two of them and Logan walk away from the man] Yes, who do you think you are? Monty?

      [the three of them start to laugh as they continue walking along the crowded street]

    • Crazy Credits
      The story you are about to see is the story of one of the boldest deceptions of our time in which Meyrick Clifton James, late of Her Majesty's Pay Corps, re-enacts his own real-life role. The Producer is deeply grateful to H. E. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief and those member of the Administration and Services at Gibraltar in March 1958, who rendered their invaluable assistance in the reconstruction of certain scenes of this film.
    • Verbindungen
      Referenced in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone: Epic (1967)

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 6. Februar 1959 (Irland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Deutsch
      • Polnisch
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      • Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
    • Drehorte
      • Liverpool Street Station, Liverpool Street, Broadgate, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(exterior scenes)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC)
      • Walton Studios
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