The Goose Steps Out
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Will Hay
William Potts / Muller
Frank Pettingell
Professor Hoffman
Julien Mitchell
General Von Glotz
Charles Hawtrey
Max
Barry Morse
Kurt
Peter Ustinov
Krauss
Peter Croft
Hans
Anne Firth
Lena
Leslie Harcourt
Vogel
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Will Hay delivers quite well in this wartime pick-me-up of a film. He is discovered to be the spitting image for a Nazi general who happens to be in charge of a prestigious Hitler Youth establishment. As you'd expect, his character "Potts" is the least like a general you can imagine, but soon he has been dispatched as a sort of doppelgänger and is causing the predictable havoc amongst the aspirational young men of the great Arian race. Hay always had solid entertainment skills, good comedy timing and a very expressive face - he easily raises a few chuckles here. Charles Hawtrey is also quite good fun as "Max" and there's even some Peter Ustinov faffing about as "Krauss" in this amiable farce that had a pretty clear propagandist purpose which I suspect would have worked well with audiences in Britain at the time. It's maybe a little long, but it does what it set out to do and as an example of the star's ability to chivvy up the viewers, it's a fair effort.
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พบว่าท็อปเปอร์ ฮาร์ลีย์ทำงานเป็นพนักงานชั่วคราวในวัดแห่งหนึ่ง ซีไอเอต้องการให้เขาเป็นผู้นำภารกิจกู้ภัยในอิรัก เพื่อช่วยเหลือทีมกู้ภัยชุดสุดท้ายที่เข้าไปช่วยเหลือตัวประกันที่ถูกทิ้งไว้หลังปฏิบัติการพายุทะเลทราย