The Wife Takes a Flyer (aka Highly Irregular, UK title: A Yank in Dutch) is a 1942 romantic comedy film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard Wallace.

[citation needed] The screenplay of The Wife Takes a Flyer was written by Jay Dratler, Gina Kaus and Harry Segall.

[3][N 1]At Nazi headquarters in occupied Holland, Major Zellfritz assigned to find a downed British pilot, becomes sidetracked by Anita Woverman.

After the pamphlets are safely stuffed back into the major's bag, Reynolds bursts into Anita's room, claiming that the Gestapo are after him.

After knocking Zellfritz unconscious, Reynolds puts on the major's uniform and speeds away to a waiting aircraft with the pamphlets in hand.

[6] Bosley Crowther, in his contemporary review for The New York Times, said: "Some one has said that we Americans will have come to a perilous pass when we can no longer laugh at our enemies—which, in one sense, may be true.

But certainly the sort of laughter which Columbia's "The Wife Takes a Flyer" limply woos is a token neither of wit nor a healthy respect for the foe.

This painfully labored comedy, which came to the Capitol yesterday, is just a cheap and artificial lot of slapstick in which the Nazis are broadly burlesqued and the people of occupied Holland are represented as so many actors in a Columbia farce.