A captivating start and a wow of a finish book-end a mixed bag of reasonably amusing, rather middling and even tedious vaudeville turns from The Crazy Gang. Those who follow this particularly comedy team will be aware that the Gang has six members, made up of three partners: Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, Naughton and Gold.
Perhaps it would help if I was British, but I've seen several old films featuring the group called 'The Crazy Gang' and I haven't enjoyed them. It isn't that I don't like silly old comedies--but I find the characters a bit annoying and a greater number of their gags fall flat than you'd find in similar films like those of the Marx Brothers or Olson and Johnson in "Hellzapoppin" (a film quite similar to "O-Kay for Sound").
This is the first movie of the Crazy Gang -- six music-hall comics in a skeleton of a plot who compete for screen time with gags, sketches and songs. It's actually an excuse for a revue and was enough of a success to result in several sequels and a career for director Marcel Varnel -- who would better be called a referee -- supervising cut-glass farces for Will Hay, Arthur Askey and George Formby.
