The Night We Dropped a Clanger (released in the US as Make Mine a Double), is a 1959 black and white British comedy film directed by Darcy Conyers and starring Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell and Leslie Phillips.

When mysterious, unpiloted, midget aircraft start landing in southern England during the Second World War, secret agent Wing Commander Blenkinsop, VC and bar, is chosen for a top-secret mission to occupied France to investigate.

Its ancient jokes, commonplace shouted dialogue, predictable situations, stock caricatures and unimaginative direction give it the tired air of a routine that has gone on far too long.

Rix does a workmanlike job in two very different roles and clearly bas a screen future as a light comedy actor even though the idiot type is now becoming slightly out-of-date.

Cecil Parker is wasted as a fatuous, absent-minded highranking Air Force officer, and Leslie Phillips, Liz Fraser John Welsh and William Hartnell are others who struggle in vain against their material.

This is a sort of Carry On Flying: Brian Rix has a field day in a dual role and there's even William Hartnell, giving his comic all as yet another barking NCO.