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.
Review of The Goose Steps Out
