A slambang
comedy, very brilliant, very acute on matters of supreme importance to the
nation, but too fast and bright for the critics by and large.
Ed Waggermeyer (“back
in the States they eat me”) shoots his film at Bilchester barracks, Hollywood
vs. Mars, British Army saved by U.S. Marines.
A couple of
privates in the mess pick up the shooting fees, the adjutant gets the starlet,
the general on inspection moves the movie shebang to a haunted house nearby,
where “the ghost of a Cavalier in the time of Charles I” will deal with the
invasion from space.
So it all falls
in behind the Royal Loyals regimental band, led by Tony Hancock.