An occasionally flat pre-WW2 British comedy that is much enlivened by the presence of that great, but rather forgotten, comic actor, Will Hay. Aided and abetted by Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, the film cannot be anything but entertaining, even if it is one of the weaker Hay films.
Hay plays Benjamin Tibbett, a teacher who arrives in darkest Africa to 'reform the pagans' but ends up in command of a military post and quells an uprising of natives. Modelled on Edgar Wallace's 'Sanders Of The River', it suffers today from some duboius views of the natives (as indeed 'Sanders..' did) - the wish to overthrow the invading British and return to the life they had before is seen as being wrong, while the complete acquiesence of servitude is apparently to be applauded. Still, there is still plenty of fun to be had and there no such thing as Will Hay film not worth watching.
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