O-Kay for Sound
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{{Infobox film
| name = O-Kay for Sound
| image = O-Kay_for_Sound_(1937_film).jpg
| caption = Cover of Danish pressbook
| director = Marcel Varnel
| producer = Edward Black
| writer = {{ubl|Bert Lee (play)|R. P. Weston (play)|Marriott Edgar|Val Guest}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|The Crazy Gang|Fred Duprez|Graham Moffatt|Enid Stamp Taylor}}
| music = Louis Levy
| cinematography = Jack E. Cox
| editing = R. E. Dearing
| studio = Gainsborough Pictures
| distributor = Gaumont British Distributors
| released = {{Film date|1937|04|22|df=yes}}
| runtime = 86 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
O-Kay for Sound is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Crazy Gang troupe of comedians.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/okay-for-sound-v104552|title=Okay for Sound (1940) - Marcel Varnel | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related|website=AllMovie}} After falling on hard times the members of the Crazy Gang are busking on the streets of London. However, they are hired as extras on a film set.Mundy p.80 After arriving at the studios they are mistaken for a group of potential investors and given free run of the studios, causing chaos.
The film was based on a stage work by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1c7eCwAAQBAJ&q=o-kay+for+sound+1937+denis+gifford&pg=PA460|title=British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film|first=Denis|last=Gifford|date=1 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317740636|via=Google Books}} It was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures, with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1ea9da|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310213937/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1ea9da|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=O-kay for Sound (1937)|website=BFI}}
Plot
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Main cast
- 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
Production
The film was one of several comedies made by Gainsborough under Ted Black.{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-moguls-ted-black/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=1 December 2024|access-date=1 December 2024|title=Forgotten British Film Moguls: Ted Black}}
References
Bibliography
- Mundy, John. The British musical film. Manchester University Press, 2007.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0029336}}
{{Marcel Varnel}}
Category:Films directed by Marcel Varnel
Category:Gainsborough Pictures films
Category:Islington Studios films
Category:British films based on plays
Category:Films about filmmaking
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language comedy films
Category:Films scored by Louis Levy
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