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They Came to Blow Up America

(1943)

This starts out by telling us that it's NOT about "the case of the eight Nazi saboteurs". Then why bring it up? What it is about is this dude who assumes a Nazi's identity so he can go to Germany and spy on their Nazi bomb school. It's a miracle he isn't busted in the first five minutes though: first he jeopardizes the whole mission over a piece of ass, and later when the wife of the guy he's impersonating shows up his big plan is to tell the Nazis she's crazy and just hope for the best. In the most hilariously stupid part his plan to derail the wife actually works: when she reports him to the Gestapo it turns into this wacky "Who's On First?" style misunderstanding and she ends up in the nuthouse! Ah, the Gestapo. So zany. Meanwhile, back home, the spy's dad is all upset because he thinks his kid really is a Nazi, so an FBI guy breaks the rules and tells him what's actually going down. He says not to tell the mom though, because "The last person in the world to tell a secret to is a woman." Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! All this plus people passing notes that say mean things about the Nazis (Wow, that ought to topple the Reich.); a Nazi with a Winston Churchill dart board; a guy who takes off his belt and starts beating people with it whenever he gets upset; and incomprehensible conversations like this:

FBI Guy: "You just get well as fast as you can."
Spy's Dad: "If I get any better, I'm sick again."

I know Nazis aren't supposed to be funny (they're supposed to be sexy), but I'm sorry- this movie is a laugh riot.