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{{Infobox film
| name = O-Kay for Sound
| image = O-Kay_for_Sound_(1937_film).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Cover of Danish [[pressbook]]
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| writer = {{ubl|[[Bert Lee]] (play)|[[R. P. Weston]] (play)|[[Marriott Edgar]]|[[Val Guest]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|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 = 22 April 1937
| 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 [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|the Crazy Gang]] troupe of comedians.<ref>{{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}}</ref> After falling on hard times the members of the Crazy Gang are [[busking]] on the streets of London. However, they are hired as [[Extra (actor)|extras]] on a [[film set]].<ref>Mundy p.80</ref> 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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was made at [[Islington Studios]] by [[Gainsborough Pictures]], with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Alex Vetchinsky]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1ea9da|title=O-kay for Sound (1937)|website=BFI}}</ref>

==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|Enid Stamp-Taylor]] as Jill Smith, secretary
* [[Meinhart Maur]] as Guggenheimer
* [[Graham Moffatt]] as Albert, the page boy
* [[Patricia Bowman]] as Dancer
* [[Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)|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

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Mundy, John. ''The British musical film''. Manchester University Press, 2007.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0029336}}

{{Marcel Varnel}}

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[[Category:British films based on plays]]
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