Screenplay:
Angus MacPhailCast:
Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Barry Morse, Peter Ustinov, Anne Firth, John Williams, John Mills, Charles Paton, Lloyd Pearson, William Hartnell, John Boxer (more)Plots(1)
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 the reluctant Mr Potts behind enemy lines. His deadly mission is to find and retrieve information on a secret weapon that the Germans are planning to use. But whilst impersonating the Nazi general, William Potts manages to infiltrate the college of Hitler Youth. He also manages to make a big impression on the students who are being trained as spies and are learning how to fit into British society. Luckily Mr Potts is at hand to give them lots of handy hints in honour of the war effort! (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Will Hay
UK
Charles Hawtrey
UK
Best movies:
The Woman Alone (1936)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Barry Morse
UK
Best movies:
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
Power Play (1978)
Peter Ustinov
UK
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Spartacus (1960)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Anne Firth
UK
Best movies:
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
The First of the Few (1942)
John Williams
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
John Mills
UK
Charles Paton
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
Blackmail (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
Lloyd Pearson
UK
Best movies:
The Angry Silence (1960)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Under Capricorn (1949)
William Hartnell
UK
Best movies:
This Sporting Life (1963)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
John Boxer
UK
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Gandhi (1982)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Leslie Dwyer
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Act of Love (1953)
Clifford Buckton
UK
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Night and the City (1950)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
A King in New York (1957)
Frank Pettingell
UK
Best movies:
Becket (1964)
The Magic Box (1951)
Gaslight (1940)
Arthur Denton
UK
Best movies:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Johnnie Schofield
UK
Best movies:
The Browning Version (1951)
Night and the City (1950)
Gaslight (1940)
Bryan Herbert
Ireland
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Convoy (1940)
Raymond Lovell
Canada
Best movies:
49th Parallel (1941)
Contraband (1940)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Jeremy Hawk
South Africa
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