a5c7b9f00b Germany&#39;s Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy&#39;s Mussolini and Japan&#39;s Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies. This is the sequel to The Devil With Hitler concerns Hitler, Mussolini and Suki Yaki going on a secret mission to sign a treaty with an Arab sheik. Once in the desert the trio run into not only the sheik but also a sailor with a talent for magic.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know which is a better movie, this or the first film. The first film has long set pieces and not much in the way of &quot;plot&quot;, this one has more of a plot and less set pieces. Both are funny, which is all that matters. Its more crazinessthe three leaders attempt a game of oneupmanship with each other and only prove they are on up on no one. This is the lighter of the two films with the eeriness of Hitler&#39;s pronouncements about the horrors of the Third Reich gone, replaced by a magic act and an ape. Its a great deal of fun.<br/><br/>Worth seeing, especially if you can double feature it with the first film. (Apparently after the initial release the two &quot;streamliners&quot; were cut together into a regular feature) This is a really moronic film butit went along within its own context I must admit I was amused. So my warning is to dump it in the first 5 minutes if you don&#39;t like it or you will kill another 40 minutes. As it is even low comedy has a floor and this is in the basement. The humor is that of the burlesque theater and it wouldn&#39;t surprise me if the writers came from that discipline. Its always interesting to see &quot;B&quot; movies &quot;star&quot; players usually consigned to feature rolls in &quot;A&quot; pictures like Guy Kibee. Of course this is no ordinary &quot;B&quot; but a cut below, one of Hal Roach&#39;s &quot;streamliners&quot; or 45 minute movies which didn&#39;t even qualify ita feature. The lead here is Frank Faylen, who was more of a bit player in &quot;A&quot;s and a featured player in &quot;B&quot;s but here has the lead. He plays the typical American wise guy, a standard Commedia del Arte figure in films of the era. This film had its own niche at the far edge of propaganda. However well or poorly the war was going, whatever the newspaper headlines or radio reports, watching the axisthe victims of slapstick gags was a morale boost. Set upburlesque skits we have a submarine with 5 crewmen, a tribe with 5 members, etc. just the number of people who can fit on a stage. There is no real narrative and the logic would even frustrate W. C. Fields. Hitler wants to make a treaty with some African country with is vital to the war but we never learn why. The leader of this country will only deal with the head man so Hitler is going to sneak off in a U- Boat but Mussolini and a Japanese general find out and are going along too. Meanwhile the crew (or at least 5 of them) in a lifeboat of a torpedoed merchantman arrive on the very shore of this African country. This African country is run by an absolute dictator (Ian Keith) who dresses like an Arabian Night movie Arab but speaks with a British RP accent and acts like he&#39;s out for a night of fun. He lives in a tent, there are a handful of people around and thats it for the African Country.<br/><br/>Faylen assumes the identity of a magician (!) and sets up a number of gags which result in maximum discomfort for the axis. The jokes and gags sometimes pour forth at speed and sometimes they come lumbering in slo-mo. Pure slapstick action with the occasional pun thrown in like &quot;The New Oder&quot;. The gags can be sub Three Stooges in concept like the pillow fight. The pillow fight was interesting because apparently they had a machine dropping feathers or feather like objects from the flies which never stops! The seamen capture the U-Boat and they all escape with Hitler &amp; coprisoners.<br/><br/>It gave some psychological relief for audiences to laughHitler was kicked in the pants by a regular American guy. BTW Hitler was played by Bobby Watson who made a nice show business dollar playing Hitler during WW2, playing Herr Schickelgrubber in no less than 9 films.
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