Dir| Mario Zampi | Cast: Douglas Wakefield, Paddy Browne, Jack Allen | comedy thriller
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
Shortly before he was interned as an enemy alien Mario Zampi his two first films, the second of which was a vehicle for the North Country comedian Duggie Wakefield in which not for the first – or the last – time our hero is the dead ringer for an enemy alien.
A simple farm labourer is kidnapped by their Germans thinking he is one of their spies. He escapes, only to be shot at by a British spy who also believes he is German.
In keeping with Zampi’s essential good nature co-writer Emeric Pressburger got an early opportunity to display his customary magnanimity to other nationalities in a surprisingly touching scene set in No Man’s with Wakefield and his German opposite number played by George Hayes.
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