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Box office. $1.2 million [1] 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. [2]
Me and the Colonel (1958) - Directed by Peter Glenville, produced by William Goetz and starring Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Alexander Scourby, Liliane Montevecchi,and more...
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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Me and the Colonel is a very different Danny Kaye comedy. It’s very funny, very entertaining, and highly recommended. But it’s also not what you normally expect from a Danny Kaye movie. There’s no singing or dancing, and the setting is much more serious – the invasion of Paris, France by Nazi Germany during World War II.
S. L. Jacobowsky
Me and the Colonel is many things at the same time – a very funny comedy, a romance, what we would now call a “buddy” film, and a World War II film. It begins with a contrast between two of the central characters – S. L. Jacobowsky, played wonderfully by Danny Kaye, a Jewish man of Polish descent who has been living in Paris, France. And who has to move, once again, to escape the Nazi forces that are overrunning the country. Jacobowsky is intelligent, resourceful, cunning, and timid.
The Colonel
He is contrasted with a man of action, Colonel Prokoszny, played by Curt Jurgens. The colonel is a man who knows no fear, who charges first and thinks later.And a man in love with Suzanne, a French innkeeper’s daughter. Risking their lives to rescue the young woman, the three (along with the Colonel’s assistant, a minor role played wonderfully by Akim Tamiroff, not entirely for comic relief) they try to escape to the coast where the Colonel has to get “secret plans” to a waiting English subma...
Romantic triangle
Along the way, Danny Kaye’s character begins to fall in love with Suzanne. Also along the way, they begin to respect each other’s strengths. The Colonel’s often repeated phrase—“Less and less I am liking this Jacobowsky”—becomes repeated less frequently. Another contrast is between their views of the world – Jacobowsky’s often-repeated aphorism, ”In life, there are always two possibilities” begins to overshadow the Colonel’s view, that there can be but one possibility for a military man—honor...
Danny Kaye (The Kid from Brooklyn) … S.L. JacobowskyCurd Jürgens (Inn of the Sixth Happiness) … Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)Nicole Maurey (The Day of the Triffids) … Suzanne RoualetFrançoise Rosay… Madame Bouffier (as Francoise Rosay)Me and the Colonel (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies.
Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on the play Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curt 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 (1958) “Strangely enough, we’re in the same business — the business of escaping.”. During WWII, a resourceful Jewish refugee (Danny Kaye) travels with an anti-semitic Polish officer (Curt Jurgens), the officer’s right-hand man (Akim Tamiroff), and the officer’s girlfriend (Nicole Maurey), who begins to fall in ...
