10/10
Very funny George Formby comedy
27 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The original title was,"Lets do it,".This is a very funny anti Nazi movie.Once again George innocently gets himself in trouble.He plays a banjo player for the Dinki Do's. He's on a ship to go with his band , but,is misconstrued as a Nazi spy that was suppose to replace a banjo player ,that was killed in the orchestra,headed by sneaky Nazi spy,Mendez,played by Garry Marsh.His dancer ,Iris,played by Coral Browne also part of the Nazi spy operation.So he ends up in Norway.Phyllis Calvert, which i got confused with Corinne Calvert,is a hotel ,who is also a spy for the British.So by accident he end sup looking for the secret codes ,that the Nazi use, to blow up some British ships.He finds out that the orchestra leader writes them on the music notes and plays them with the orchestra,so the radio can hear it and the Germans Nazis can pick up the code.As with his other pictures he get into a big mess.Like when Iris tries to seduce him to get his passport to determine if he is one of them.Another scene which he chases a camera that going through the bakery and he ends up in a pile of dough.He eventually ends up in the Nazi submarine headed by a young Torin Thatcher,of the robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators,fouling up the Nazis plan to blow up a ship where Mary,played by Phyllis,is at.Only ending up on the ship from the torpedo shell. Great British comedy from 1940. I don't know if it was before or after England was bombed.09/28/12
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