This Danny Kaye vehicle starts unpromisingly as a feeble, flat-footed comedy but develops – despite Curd Jurgens' heavily misplaced performance – into a slight but rather poignant little microcosm of suffering humanity. Danny Kaye, in a rare dramatic role, delivers a fine, sensitive account of "me" – which contrasts all the more with Jurgens' gaucheries. Glenville's direction is at its best in the handling of crowd scenes, and also in his effective use of natural locations. Elsewhere alas, he makes no attempts to dampen Jurgens' heavy-handed enthusiasm, or even to speed up any of the slow-moving expository scenes which – to add a total disinterest to what was already an almost complete turn-off – are filmed from the most uninteresting angles possible!
Review of Me and the Colonel
