The Goose Steps Out (1942)

08/01/1942Comedy, War1h 19m
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Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Will Hay

    William Potts / Muller

  2. Cast 1

    Frank Pettingell

    Professor Hoffman

  3. Cast 1

    Julien Mitchell

    General Von Glotz

  4. Cast 1

    Charles Hawtrey

    Max

  5. Cast 1

    Barry Morse

    Kurt

  6. Cast 1

    Peter Ustinov

    Krauss

  7. Peter Croft

    Hans

  8. Anne Firth

    Lena

  9. Leslie Harcourt

    Vogel

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 g...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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