Screenplay:
Angus MacPhailCinematography:
Eric CrossCast:
Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Thora Hird, George Merritt, Katie Johnson, Roddy Hughes, John Boxer, Kenneth Griffith, Leslie Mitchell (more)Plots(1)
William Davis, the head of a correspondence college who becomes embroiled with the Nazis as they try to prevent the signing of a trade agreement. On learning that a Nazi agent has breached security and is posing as the economics expert responsible for lining out the international agreement, the good professor tries to find the real expert, who has been kidnapped and hidden. In a plot centring on mistaken identities, Hay appears in six different disguises, and twice as a woman. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Will Hay
UK
John Mills
UK
Basil Sydney
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Hamlet (1948)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Felix Aylmer
UK
Thora Hird
UK
Best movies:
A Kind of Loving (1962)
The Magic Box (1951)
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
George Merritt
UK
Best movies:
Young and Innocent (1937)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Katie Johnson
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1940)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Roddy Hughes
UK
Best movies:
Scrooge (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
In Which We Serve (1942)
John Boxer
UK
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Gandhi (1982)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Kenneth Griffith
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Shaka Zulu (1986) (series)
Leslie Mitchell
UK
Best movies:
Genevieve (1953)
Cyril Chamberlain
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
The One That Got Away (1957)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
George Woodbridge
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Brefni O'Rorke
Ireland
Best movies:
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
The First of the Few (1942)
They Met in the Dark (1943)