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...obstacle run. In the course of the hurlyburly, Windrush absorbs some of the rules of artful dodging in the service, e.g., "Never give your right name to anybody; otherwise they've got you," gets involved in a harebrained "Operation Hatrack" conceived by "Uncle Bertie," otherwise Brigadier General Bertram Tracepurcel. Uncle Bertie's scheme: to disguise a platoon of British Tommies as Nazis, send them into Germany to snatch a cache of art treasures which Uncle Bertie plans to sell on the British black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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