Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Will Hay | ... | Professor Davis | |
John Mills | ... | Bobby Jessop | |
Basil Sydney | ... | Arthur Costello | |
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Henry Hewitt | ... | Prof. Davys |
Felix Aylmer | ... | J.B. Crabtree | |
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Owen Reynolds | ... | Harman |
Frank Cellier | ... | Dr. Innsbach | |
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Joss Ambler | ... | Sir John |
Frank Allenby | ... | Onslowe | |
Thora Hird | ... | Joyce | |
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Margaret Halstan | ... | Matron |
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Barbara Valerie | ... | Sister Spooner |
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Leslie Mitchell | ... | B.B.C. Interviewer |
George Woodbridge | ... | Male Nurse | |
George Merritt | ... | Station Master |
Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Will Hay was never as funny again after leaving Gainsborough for Ealing, and with it Graham Moffat & Moore Marriott. This one is a particularly dispiriting affair, with few of a good cast at their best - and it doesn't even have Claude Hulbert! Hay laboriously impersonates six different characters without any attempt to change his voice or body language; while the concluding motor cycle chase set against an attractive rural backdrop initially promises to liven things up, but proves far too confusing and goes on far too long.
There are odd moments such as the radio interview with Leslie Mitchell that reduces Mitchell to a perspiring wreck, and John Mills has a couple of funny scenes impersonating an amnesiac in the Psychopathic Ward; but it took until Hay's next (and final) two films to return to something like his old form.