GASBAGS (1941) Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen & Jimmy Nervo | Adventure, Comedy | B&W

Gasbags is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel and starring The Crazy Gang as well as Moore Marriott. The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the Second World War.

Synopsis

The Crazy Gang's mobile fish and chip shop is tethered to a barrage balloon which lifts the shop into the air and the gang is carried to Nazi Germany. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate Adolf Hitler and return to England in a stolen secret weapon.
The Crazy gang invade Nazi Germany !! They accidentally pilot a balloon over enemy territory.

Cast & Crew

Bud Flanagan as Bud
Chesney Allen as Ches
Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
Teddy Knox as Knoxy
Charlie Naughton as Charlie
Jimmy Gold as Goldy
Moore Marriott as Jerry Jenkins
Wally Patch as Sergeant-Major
Peter Gawthorne as Commanding Officer
Frederick Valk as Sturmfuehrer
Eric Clavering as Scharffuehrer
Anthony Eustrel as Gestapo Officer
Carl Jaffe as Gestapo Chief
Manning Whiley as Colonel
Torin Thatcher as SS Man
George Merritt as German General
Irene Handl as Burgomaster's wife
Leonard Sharp as Chip Shop customer
Mavis Villiers as Woman
Henry Longhurst as Woodcutter
Theodore Zichy as 2nd in Command

Directed by: Walter Forde, Marcel Varnel
Written by: Marriott Edgar, Val Guest
Produced by: Edward Black
Cinematography: Arthur Crabtree
Edited by: R. E. Dearing
Music by: Louis Levy
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by: General Film Distributors
Release Date: 1 February 1941
Running Time: 77 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English