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- BFI identifier30509
- Date1941-02-03 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisCrazy Gang get whisked off in a balloon and land in France, amongst prisoners. Get flung into a concentration camp. Meet prisoner who has a secret weapon, gang get it and make sensational get away. Return to England expecting to be heroes but are jailed for taking the balloon. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe six members of the Crazy Gang are cited at the beginning of the film's opening credits as 'The Crazy Gang' followed by the names of their double acts Nervo & Knox, Flanagan & Allen and Naughton & Gold. There is no cast list, either at the start or end of the film, with corresponding character names for the individual members of the Gang.
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- CreditsDirected by: Marcel Varnel
A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures
Presents: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
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Title
Gasbags (Original)
Balloonatics (Working)
The Siegfried Line (Working)
Gone with the Wind-up! (Working)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/AC0C-2A3A-0CB8-6F15-DDE3-ECategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: by Val Valentine and Ralph Smart - SCR-8561
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-30509
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-30509
Medium pressbook and small press-sheet held. For example of programme see CINEMA EPHEMERA:REGIONS (Welwyn Theatre). See VAL GUEST Special Collection.
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-999680
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-999681
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-999682
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-999683
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-w29
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