Bud Flanagan gets the lion's share of this Flanagan & Allen vehicle, which is amusing enough but not a patch on John Baxter's later films with the boys and rife with naughty words and sentiments that earned it a stern disclaimer from Talking Pictures.
Although brought up to date with a joke about Hitler, plenty of the routines (like the obnoxious waiter and how not to pay for a drink in a bar) obviously originated on the music hall stage (while Flanagan is actually asked at one point "What's a Greek urn?").
Since it's set in a film studio there are the usual joke about Yes men and xenophobic humour at the expense of a Jewish producer and a Prussian director with a monocle (as Flanagan observes "There are a lot of foreigners on this film, aren't there?").
It now being wartime the studio turns out be swarming with foreign agents; with the statuesque Phyllis Stanley reprising her Mata Hari from 'The Next of Kin'.
Although brought up to date with a joke about Hitler, plenty of the routines (like the obnoxious waiter and how not to pay for a drink in a bar) obviously originated on the music hall stage (while Flanagan is actually asked at one point "What's a Greek urn?").
Since it's set in a film studio there are the usual joke about Yes men and xenophobic humour at the expense of a Jewish producer and a Prussian director with a monocle (as Flanagan observes "There are a lot of foreigners on this film, aren't there?").
It now being wartime the studio turns out be swarming with foreign agents; with the statuesque Phyllis Stanley reprising her Mata Hari from 'The Next of Kin'.
