Top billed cast

1. 

   Will Hay

   William Potts / Muller

2. 

   Frank Pettingell

   Professor Hoffman

3. 

   Julien Mitchell

   General Von Glotz

4. 

   Charles Hawtrey

   Max

5. 

   Barry Morse

   Kurt

6. 

   Peter Ustinov

   Krauss

7. 

   Peter Croft

   Hans

8. 

   Anne Firth

   Lena

9. 

   Leslie Harcourt

   Vogel

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-18

Will Hay delivers quite well in this wartime pick-me-up of a film. He is discovered to be the spitting image for a Nazi general who happens to be in charge of a prestigious Hitler Youth establishment. As you'd expect, his character "Potts" is the least like a general you can imagine, but soon he has been dispatched as a sort of doppelgänger and is causing the predictable havoc amongst the aspirational young men of the great Arian race. Hay always had solid entertainment skills, good comedy timing and a very expressive face - he easily raises a few chuckles here. Charles Hawtrey is also quite ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• ealing