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{{Infobox film
| name = Gasbags
| image = Gasbags_(1941_film).jpg
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| caption = Opening title
| director = {{ubl|[[Walter Forde]]|[[Marcel Varnel]]}}
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| writer = {{ubl|[[Marriott Edgar]]|[[Val Guest]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Moore Mariott]]|[[Carl Jaffe]]}}
| music = [[Louis Levy]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Crabtree]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released = 1 February 1941
| runtime = 77 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''Gasbags''''' is a 1941 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] [[film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]] as well as [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aad71e8|title=Gasbags (1941)}}</ref> The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the [[Second World War]].<ref name=radiotimes/>

==Production==
It was shot at the [[Lime Grove Studios]] in [[London]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Alex Vetchinsky]]. It was the fourth and final film starring the comedians at [[Gainsborough Pictures]]. [[Flanagan and Allen]] subsequently moved to [[British National Films Company|British National]] where they made a further four films over the next few years.

==Plot summary==
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 [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Germany]]. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate [[Adolf Hitler]] and return to [[England]] in a stolen secret weapon.

==Cast==
*[[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 (actor)|George Merritt]] as German General
*[[Irene Handl]] as Burgomaster's wife
*[[Leonard Sharp (actor)|Leonard Sharp]] as Chip Shop customer
* [[Mavis Villiers]] as Woman
* [[Henry Longhurst (actor)|Henry Longhurst]] as Woodcutter
*[[Theodore Zichy]] as 2nd in Command

==Critical reception==
''[[TV Guide]]'' called it "An exhilarating comedy";<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/gasbags/review/124197/|title=Gasbags - TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref> while the ''[[Radio Times]]'' called it "the best film ever made by the Crazy Gang...Director Marcel Varnel has just the right surreal touch to make it work and leave audiences laughing."<ref name=radiotimes>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fw76cq/gasbags/|title=Gasbags – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online|website=Radio Times}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
*Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen - "Yesterday's Dreams" (Written by [[Michael Carr (composer)|Michael Carr]] and [[Dorothy Day]])

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Mayer, Geoff. ''Guide to British Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0032511|title=Gasbags}}

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