GONE WITH THE WIND UP
(20th Century Fox)
‘THE Crazy Gang join the crew of a barrage balloon, and when the wind comes up, blowing the balloon away, it blows
the Crazy Gang with it. Naturally it lands in Germany-there wouldn’t
be a story otherwise-and the Crazy Gang get the wind up properly. They are bundled into a concentration camp and there remain until one of them takes the place of one of Hitler’s doubles, who have all gone on strike. He hates being a blackleg, but has to do it so that the rest of the Crazy Gang can find em-_ ployment as his bodyguard. In their spare moments, between foiling attempts to bump off their own particular Hitler and dodging irate Gestapo G-men, they locate a secret tunnelling machine. They jump in, and after putting the wind up the whole neighbourhood by their molish activities, cross the Channel and arrive home literally just in time to hear the News from London, It is a common enough story these days. The supporting actors are stilted, stiff, unnatural.. But don’t worry too much about that. The direction in most cases is excellent. Even though the mole is a little tinny and the sky does look sometimes like a painted piece of cardboard, you laugh when you’re meant to laugh, and, crowning achievement, even the sadism of the Nazi troopers is made to be not bitter, but amusing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 16
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237GONE WITH THE WIND UP New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 16
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