Hi Gang! (film)

Hi Gang!
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Edward Black
Written by	Bebe Daniels (radio series) Ben Lyon (radio series) Marriott Edgar Val Guest J.O.C. Orton Howard Irving Young
Starring	Bebe Daniels Ben Lyon Vic Oliver Moore Marriott
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	R.E. Dearing
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release dates	27 December 1941
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver.^[1]

Production

It was a spin-off from the popular BBC radio series Hi Gang!. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at Lime Grove Studios. The film's art direction was by Walter W. Murton.

Plot

Two married reporters (Daniels and Lyon) in New York City working for rival radio networks engage in cut-throat competition, assisted by an incompetent with big ideas (Oliver). A publicity stunt by the couple to adopt a British evacuee boy live on air goes wrong and they end up adopting Albert (Moffatt) a rowdy pub landlord's son and his cantankerous Uncle Jerry (Marriott). The final third of the film sees them all travel to England in the mistaken belief that Albert is the son of Lord Amersham.

Cast

Bebe Daniels as The Liberty Girl
Ben Lyon as Her Other Half
Vic Oliver as The Nuisance with the Ideas
Moore Marriott as Uncle Jerry
Graham Moffatt as Albert Tomlin
Felix Aylmer as Lord Amersham
Percy Parsons as Hergensheimer
Diana Beaumont as Hergensheimer's Secretary
Jacques Brown as Botticelli
Mavis Villiers as Botticelli's Secretary
Maurice Rhodes as Little Ben
Richard George as Policeman
Georgina Mackinnon as Mrs Endicott
MacDonald Parke as Attorney
Esme Percy as Lord Chamberlain
Ben Williams as Elmer

References

↑ BFI | Film & TV Database | HI, GANG! (1941)

Bibliography

Cook, Pam. Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.

External links

Hi Gang! at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Marcel Varnel

The Silent Witness (1932)
Chandu the Magician (1932)
Infernal Machine (1933)
Freedom of the Seas (1934)
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Dance Band (1935)
The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
No Monkey Business (1935)
All In (1936)
Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
Good Morning, Boys (1937)
Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
Convict 99 (1938)
Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
Old Bones of the River (1938)
Ask a Policeman (1939)
The Frozen Limits (1939)
Where's That Fire? (1940)
O-Kay for Sound (1940)
Band Waggon (1940)
Let George Do It! (1940)
Neutral Port (1940)
Gasbags (1941)
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
I Thank You (1941)
South American George (1941)
Hi Gang! (1941)
Much Too Shy (1942)
King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
Get Cracking (1943)
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
Bell-Bottom George (1944)
I Didn't Do It (1945)
George in Civvy Street (1946)
This Man Is Mine (1946)

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