The Goose Steps Out

Infobox Film
name = The Goose Steps Out


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director = Will Hay
Basil Dearden
producer = Michael Balcon
writer = Angus Macphaill
John Dighton
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starring = Will Hay
Frank Pettingell
Julien Mitchell
Charles Hawtrey
Peter Ustinov
music = Bretton Byrd
cinematography = Ernest Palmer
editing = Ray Pitt
distributor = Ealing Studios
released = August 1942
runtime = 79 minutes
country = flagicon|UK UK
language = English
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imdb_id = 0034801

"The Goose Steps Out" is a British comedy film released in 1942. This film starred, and was co-directed by the popular British comedian Will Hay.

The film's title refers to the Nazis' vigorous ceremonial marching, called "goose-stepping".

Plot summary

Set during World War II, "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 rabidly-fascist young students who are being trained to work as spies in England. 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, 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 England, crashing in a tree outside the War Office in London.

Cast

*Will Hay as William Potts/Muller
*Charles Hawtrey as Max
*Frank Pettingell as Professor Hoffman
*Julien Mitchell as General Von Glotz
*Peter Ustinov as Krauss
*Barry Morse as Kurt
*Leslie Harcourt as Vagel
*Peter Croft as Hans
*Ann Firth as Lena
*Ray Lovell as Schmidt
*Jeremy Hawk as ADC
*Aubrey Mallalieu as Rector
*John Williams as Major Bishop
*Lawrence O'Madden as Colonel Truscott
*William Hartnell as German Officer at Station (uncredited)

External links

*imdb title|id=0034801|title=The Goose Steps Out