The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out

1942 · 79 min · ★ 6.7 · Comedy, War

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.

Directed by Basil Dearden · Written by Angus MacPhail

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