Times have changed!
Note how Will Hay says when the stone comes through the police station window, "This is England; they don't throw bombs here!"
Haven't times changed.
Good point, but I wonder if it was meant as a joke, because Will Hay then puts the 'bomb' in a bucket of water and says 'I learned this in my ARP (air raid patrol) training'. By 1938 Britain was already preparing for bombing raids and this may have been a sly nod to that.
shareI think it was more to do with the IRA bombings which were going on when this film was being made, after politicians had said there would be no bombings on British soil. There were a few topical items in this film. On the radio recordings, when he is cut off, he says 'The BBC always fade out the best bits' This was in reference to the BBC fading out one of his radio programmes, and apparantly he was very unhappy about it.
shareIts sometimes hard to understand the social context of some of the lines when its over seven decades ago. I would had presumed it would had been something to do with the run up to the second world war rather than any IRA bombings!
Its that man again!!