The Goose Steps Out

1942

Action / Comedy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 578 578

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Plot summary

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.

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Top cast

John Williams as Maj. Bishop
Jeremy Hawk as A.D.C.
Walter Gotell as SS Guard
Peter Ustinov as Krauss
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544.65 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 19 min
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1 hr 19 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Will Hay delivers quite well in this wartime

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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Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 7 / 10

When comedy meets propaganda

THE GOOSE STEPS OUT is another fine comedy from Will Hay, here repackaged as a propaganda movie for British viewers during WW2. This is just as funny as GOOD MORNING, BOYS, another favourite I watched recently. Hill plays a mild-mannered and bumbling schoolteacher (of course) who turns out to be the double of a Nazi spy. The spy is captured and Hay is sent to Nazi Germany in his place, where he's given the job of teaching raw Nazi recruits. The usual situation comedy plays out, alongside plenty of laughs at the expense of the Germans; the scene in which Hitler's portrait is sworn at has to be seen to be believed. The film's dramatic storyline means that there's suspense here along with the laughs, and the likes of Peter Ustinov and Charles Hawtrey prove perfect support.

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