The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Directed by Basil Dearden / Will Hay
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the Nazis who are trying to prevent the signing of an important trade agreement between South American countries and England. When the professor learns 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. To find him, the prof must utilize numerous ridiculous disguises.
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rescue, advice, Britain, capture, deaf-mute, disguise, economy, espionage, family, Germany, kidnapping, killing, national, nursing-home, pact, professor, prostitute/prostitution, teacher, victim, war
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