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Part of the Vintage Classics collection Will Hay co-directs and stars in this classic British comedy. The film follows inept schoolmaster William Potts (Hay) as he is parachuted into Nazi Germany after British intelligence discover that he is the spitting image of an enemy master spy. Instructed to impersonate the spy and bring back details of a new German bomb, Potts is put to work at a Hitler Youth training academy teaching young German spies how to appear authentically British.The cast also includes Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov and Frank Pettingell.

The Goose Steps Out (1942)
79 min
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.