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A very dated wartime comedy; Danny Kaye plays a hypochondriac American private soldier who is induced to play the part of a British General, whose life is under threat. There is plenty of opportunity for cross-Atlantic mockery, and the film hasn't dated well. In fact even in 1961 it must have been pretty embarrassing.
Kaye's character, playing the British General, has been captured by the Germans; he escapes into a night club, and he is spotted., In a slapstick sequence, he keeps disappearing into the cloakroom and emerging in a different outfit ... inevitably eventually a female one, a fur coat and a big hat. That doesn't fool anyone either, but he manages to escape again and dresses in the clothes ... and wig ... of a cabaret singer. Predictably as he emerges from the dressing room, the spotlight is on him and he is announced as the (female) singer everyone has been waiting for. After a faltering performance he escapes again into the ladies' loo, but a drunken Wehrmacht officer follows him in, and demands a striptease at gunpoint.
HF October 2004
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