Me and the Colonel

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 Jrgens and Nicole Maurey.

In Paris during the World War II invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Jewish refugee S. L. Jacobowsky Danny Kaye seeks to leave the country before it falls. Meanwhile, Polish diplomat Dr. Szicki Ludwig Stssel gives antisemitic, autocratic Polish Colonel Prokoszny Curt Jrgens secret information that must be delivered to London by a certain date.The resourceful Jacobowsky, who has had to flee from the Nazis several times previously, manages to buy an automobile from the absent Baron Rothschilds chauffeur. Prokoszny peremptorily requisitions the car, but finds he must accept an unwelcome passenger when he discovers that Jacobowsky has had the foresight to secure gasoline. The illmatched pair coincidentally from the same village in Poland and the colonels orderly, Szabuniewicz Akim Tamiroff, drive away. ........

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