The Goose Steps Out

1942

ComedyWar

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.

Rating

6.4
12 votes

Popularity

0.2264

Origin & Countries

GB | en | United Kingdom

Production

Ealing Studios

Runtime

79 min.

Status

Released

Release: 8/1/1942

Credits

The Goose Steps Out

Basil DeardenDirector

The Goose Steps Out

Will HayWilliam Potts / Muller

The Goose Steps Out

Frank PettingellProfessor Hoffman

The Goose Steps Out

Julien MitchellGeneral Von Glotz

The Goose Steps Out

Charles HawtreyMax

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/18/2023

6 / 10

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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