CROOK'S TOUR is a weak war-era comedy that I'm afraid I found dated in the worst kind of way. Despite the hard work put in by the two stars, this is an extremely boring kind of film, a comedy in which I didn't laugh once. It's another tired premise involving mistaken identity which leads to our heroes being pursued by villains and bad guys across the world. Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne are here reprising their roles from THE LADY VANISHES, but without a good script and director this is sluggish and unmotivating; my advice is to stick with Hitch.

After finally alighting from the Night Train to Munich, Charters & Caldicot continued their travels abroad (obviously without leaving Elstree) to much less amusing effect tangling with slinky blonde femme fatale Greta Gynt in Budapest.

It's a tedious, garrulous affair with annoying continuous music on the soundtrack which makes it even more of a trial; and the boys went back to their previous hilarious selves during the rest of the war in guest cameos instead (although they later showed they still could carry a feature in the much funnier postwar production 'It's Not Cricket').

1st watched 7/24/2016 : Whimsical at best, and un-eventful comedy-spy movie using the Charters & Coldecott characters originally created in the Hitchcock movie "The Lady Vanishes." The story is kind of a "Road To"-like plot similar to the Crosby/Hope series of movies where an un-involved duo gets pulled into International intrigue by mistake. In the film - the main characters, played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, are mistakenly identified as spys because they order the same items off a menu as the actual Spys are supposed to, and are handed a phonograph with secret plans instead of a recording of a singer they have just watched. This begins a crazy set of ever-changing circumstances that sends the duo everywhere from Northwest Africa to the European nations, than eventually back to England. There are some laughs if you listen closely, and some musical moments from looker Greta Gynt, but other than that - the movie is just an excuse to plop these characters into a story that makes no sense and tries to get some laughs. Coldicott's character even has a fiancee who is Charter's sister, and of course, he is tempted by the owl-dancing singer mentioned earlier and others --- showing us, at least, that we are not dealing with a gay couple - thwarting the rumors from "The Lady Vanishes." I almost wish they were - the movie might be funnier. Anywho - not a lot of reason to have this movie - it doesn't really do much for these characters - probably better off if they had been just in the one movie.