THE CRAZY GANG

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3133, 19 June 1942, Page 5

THE CRAZY GANG

“GONE WITH THE WIND UP” PROGRAMME AT REGENT BREAKS RECORDS FOR HILARITY How’s this for a record casting problem? Betty White, casting manager of Gainsborough Pictures, had to find fifty Hitlers to play in “Gasbags,” the latest G-B-D Crazy Gang side-splitter showing at the Regent Theatre on Saturday night only. They were required to play the part of Hitler’s “doubles,” who go on strike because the work of impersonating the -Feuhrer on public occasions is getting too dangerous. But one “Hitler to end all Hitlers*’ volunteers to do the job at the last moment. It is Teddy Knox, who, with the rest of the Gang, is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp to which the obstinate “doubles” are sent. Highlight of the whole film comes when the Gang—Teddy as Hitler, Flanagan as G-oi-ring, and the rest of the boys as other prominent leaders of the Nazi party parade through streets lined with cheering crowds in an open car in the true Hitler tradition. Secret Weapon Another feature of the film is a mysterious secret weapon which the 1 boys set out to capture and which finally takes them 'back to England. The rigid censorship which was imposed by the studio officials on details of the weapon have been relaxed slightly to allow the following facts to be published: The weapon is thirty feet long.

It is so constructed that it can. burrow underground as a' speed of several hundred “mole-power.” It pulls ships under water when it burrows beneath the Channel.

It is in short, a contraption of which the greatest inventor has. hitherto never dreamed, except, perhaps, in a nightmare!