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| O-Kay for Sound | |
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| Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
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| Produced by | Edward Black |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
| Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
O-Kay for Sound is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Crazy Gang troupe of comedians.[1] It was written by Marriott Edgar and Val Guest based on the stage show by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston.[2] It was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures, with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky.[3] The film was re-issued in 1942.[4]
Plot
[edit]After falling on hard times the members of the Crazy Gang are busking on the streets of London. After are hired as extras on a film set, on arriving at the studios are mistaken for a group of potential investors and given free run of the studios, causing chaos.[5]
Main cast
[edit]- Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
- Teddy Knox as Teddy
- Bud Flanagan as Bud
- Chesney Allen as "Ches"
- Charlie Naughton as Charlie
- Jimmy Gold as Jimmy
- Fred Duprez as Hyman Goldberger
- Enid Stamp-Taylor as Jill Smith, secretary
- Meinhart Maur as Guggenheimer
- Graham Moffatt as Albert, the page boy
- Patricia Bowman as dancer
- Peter Dawson as singer
- Jan Gotch as all-in wrestler
- H. F. Maltby as John Rigby
- Louis Pergantes as all-in wrestler
- The Sherman Fisher Girls as dancers
- Louis Levy as conductor
Reception
[edit]The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The comedy is sometimes broad but always funny; the film moves at a rattling pace ... There is enough plot to hold the film together and to weld into a unity the many and various scenes: ballet (first serious, then comic), plantation songs, burlesque Indian frontier melodrama and custard-pie. Throughout the 'Crazy Gang' display their powers of entertainment, with cleverly introduced interludes by other music-hall experts, such as Lucienne and Ashour, the Robinis, the Radio Three and the J. Sherman Fisher Girls."[6]
Kine Weekly wrote: "The famous Crazy Gang are all here, and they fool with unflagging energy. The show could have been a little more compact, but taken all round it is bright and breezy. It is a good comedy bet for London, and it is to be hoped that the stars have the same pull in the provinces. It is worth a chance. ... The film is on the long side, but bright situations and gags turn up with sufficient frequency to keep the entertainment on a cheery level."[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "O-Kay for Sound". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- ↑ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "O-kay for Sound (1937)". BFI. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016.
- ↑ "O-Kay for Sound". Kine Weekly. 303 (1831): 32. 21 May 1942. ProQuest 3127093838.
- ↑ Mundy, John (2007). The British musical film. Manchester University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0719063213.
- ↑ "O-Kay for Sound". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 4 (37): 76. 1 January 1937. ProQuest 1305800472.
- ↑ "O-Kay for Sound". Kine Weekly. 242 (1567): 43. 29 April 1937. ProQuest 2338180618.
External links
[edit]- 1937 films
- 1937 comedy films
- British comedy films
- Films directed by Marcel Varnel
- Gainsborough Pictures films
- Islington Studios films
- Films set in London
- British films based on plays
- Films about filmmaking
- British black-and-white films
- 1937 English-language films
- 1937 British films
- English-language comedy films
- Films scored by Louis Levy