The Goose Steps Out
The Goose Steps Out is a British comedy film released in 1942. This film starred, and was codirected by, the British comedian Will Hay. He shared directorial credit with Basil Dearden whose first film as a director this was. The film was a big box office hit in Britain, but not in the U.S., where audiences failed to respond to the humour of Hays pathetic, bumbling persona. The Goose Steps Out is also noted as the film debut of a young Peter Ustinov.
Set during the Second World War, The Goose Steps Out recounts the adventures of William Potts Will Hay after it is discovered that he is an exact double of a German spy who the British have just captured. Potts is flown into Nazi Germany to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details of a new German secret weapon.On arrival, however, Potts is placed in charge of a group of apparently rabidlyfascist young students who are being trained to work as spies in Britain. Potts attempts to undermine this by convincing the youngsters that the proper British way of saluting a great leader is to apply the Vsign, which they therefore do repeatedly and enthusiastically in the direction of a portrait of the Fhrer. At a function where he hopes to gather information about the weapon a gasfire bomb, Potts succeeds only in getting blind drunk and admitting that he is a British agent. Luckily, some members of his class of Nazi youths turn out to be sympathetic Austrians and they help him obtain the secret he seeks. Potts and his new friends eventually commandeer a plane and fly back to Britain, crashing in a tree outside the War Office in London. ........
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