Gangway (film)

Gangway
Sheet music cover
Directed bySonnie Hale
Written byscreenplay:
Lesser Samuels
scenario:
Sonnie Hale
Story byDwight Taylor
StarringJessie Matthews
Barry MacKay
Nat Pendleton
CinematographyGlen MacWilliams
Edited byAl Barnes
Music bymusic & lyrics:
Samuel Lerner
Al Goodhart
Al Hoffman
musical director:
Louis Levy
special orchestration:
Bretton Byrd
Production
company
Distributed byGaumont British Distributors
Release date
  • 21 January 1938 (1938-01-21) (UK)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Gangway is a 1937 British musical film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Nat Pendleton and Alastair Sim.[1] Its plot involves a young reporter goes undercover to unmask a gang of criminals who are planning a jewel heist. AKA as Sparkles in Australia and on Australian release 78rpm records.[2] Jessie Matthews was nicknamed SPARKLE in the film.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Gangway (1937)". Archived from the original on 17 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Gangway (1937)". IMDb.
  3. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Gangway (1937)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  4. ^ http://www.jessiematthews.co.uk/gangway.htm (Wayback Machine 2018-09-02)