The Night We Dropped A Clanger came out in 1959 in the UK and 1961 in the US under the name Make Mine A Double. John T Chapman wrote the screenplay and Darcy Conyers did the directing. John would go onto write the 1967 TV series Blandings Castle and many other series I haven't seen. Darcy didn't direct a lot of films and many of them were for Brian Rix.
Brian plays two parts in this farcical war film. He's Commander Blenkinsop of the RAF and Aircraftsman Atwood of the RAF toilets. Blenkinsop is all man and his double all wimp. Blenkinsop is off to occupied France for a secret mission and Atwood will be parading about North Africa to fool the Germans into thinking that the real agent is under their eye. The plan would have worked but they didn't watch Atwood, he failed in going through a revolving door, the man is stupid, and wound up being mistaken for the real Blenkinsop. Atwood flounders around and accidentally climbs into a buzzbomb that's just going to be fired at London. He manages to get it to land and the military gives him a medal. The real Blenkinsop got upset he was on the wrong plane and he winds up in a convalescent hospital for three months under Atwood's name. The 2 eventually gets back to their normal lives.
The jokes are a bit flat, some were tired during the real WWII, and some are kind of funny. I laughed a few times and thought I might watch it again someday. Plenty of fun cast to watch Cecil Parker, Hattie Jacques, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Liz Fraser and Andrew Sachs in his debut role.
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