Hello Lafayette

In the height of the silent era's obsession with military slapstick, Hello Lafayette follows an unlikely recruit whose civilian expertise is as niche as it is useless: salmon tasting. After enlisting, the protagonist finds himself relegated to the mess hall, tasked with distributing fish to weary soldiers. His transition to the front lines is marked by a disastrous lack of focus, leading to a high-stakes mix-up where he inadvertently hurls live grenades at his own hungry comrades, mistaking the explosives for tinned rations. The narrative takes a turn for the surreal when a battalion of chorus girls, inexplicably dressed as Anzac soldiers, appears on the battlefield to provide tactical support. Through a series of accidental maneuvers and the help of this musical-theater-inspired army, the recruit manages to capture an entire company of German soldiers, eventually earning an unlikely decoration from his commanding officer.