The Goose Steps Out. William Potts (Will Hay). Copyright: Ealing Studios / STUDIOCANAL
The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out

  • 1942 film

Wartime comedy starring Will Hay. Teacher William Potts goes undercover at a German spy training school. Also features Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Croft, Anne Firth and more.

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Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German, who they are currently holding prisoner, they decide to drop...

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Classic wartime comedy film starring and directed by Will Hay. Hay plays teacher William Potts who looks strangely like a captured Nazi general. It is decided by the army to send Potts undercovered to a school training German spies in order to find out about a new secret weapon.

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