Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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CinemaSerf
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By CinemaSerf
Essentially just a vehicle for Will Hay ("Capt. Viking"), I found this to be just a bit limited. He is the slovenly leader of a team of hopeless firemen who are given a bit of an ultimatum - either put out a fire or get the bullet. Not the hardest of tasks for a fireman, you would have thought but when their fire engine gets pinched by some would-be Crown Jewel robbers, they must get themselves a new wagon and finally put out a fire! Hay, working again with Moore Marriott ("Harbottle") and Graham Moffatt ("Brown"), have some predictably slapstick escapades that though harmless, I found just a bit too puerile. Hay certainly had a great gift for comedy timing, but here I felt the whole thing just a little too contrived to be very funny for long.
