The Goose Steps Out
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#English-language_films
#1942_films
#British_films
#1942_comedy_films
#British_black-and-white_films
#Ealing_Studios_films
#Films_directed_by_Basil_Dearden
#Films_directed_by_Will_Hay
#Films_set_in_England
#Films_set_in_London
The Goose Steps Out is a British film released in 1942, starring Will Hay, who also co-directed with Basil Dearden.
It is a comedy of mistaken identity, with Hay acting as a German spy and also an Englishman who is his double.
It was the film debut of Peter Ustinov.
Set during the Second World War, the film 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 rabidly-fascist 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 V-sign, which they therefore do repeatedly and enthusiastically in the direction of a portrait of the Führer.
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.
Will Hay shared directorial credit with Basil Dearden following on from their previous collaboration, The Black Sheep of Whitehall.
Art Director, Michael Relph described Dearden and Hay's input as directors 'Basil was very expert at directing c...
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