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Gangway (film) - Wikipedia

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Gangway
Sheet music cover
Directed by	Sonnie Hale
Written by	screenplay: Lesser Samuels scenario: Sonnie Hale
Story by	Dwight Taylor
Starring	Jessie Matthews Barry MacKay Nat Pendleton
Cinematography	Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	Al Barnes
Music by	music & lyrics: Samuel Lerner Al Goodhart Al Hoffman musical director: Louis Levy special orchestration: Bretton Byrd
Production company	Gaumont British
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	21 January 1938 (1938-01-21) (UK)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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]

Plot

Newspaper film critic Pat Wayne (Jessie Matthews) boards an ocean liner to New York to interview glamorous movie star Nedda Beaumont (Olive Blakeney). Once aboard, Pat somehow gets mixed up with a gangster (Nat Pendleton), and a Scotland yard inspector (Barry MacKay), who both mistake her for a female jewel thief called "Sparkle."

Main cast

Jessie Matthews as Pat Wayne
Barry MacKay as Bob Deering
Nat Pendleton as Smiles Hogan
Alastair Sim as Detective Taggett
Olive Blakeney as Nedda Beaumont
Noel Madison as Mike Otterman
Patrick Ludlow as Carl Freemason
Liane Ordeyne as Greta Brand
Graham Moffatt as Joe
Danny Green as Shorty
Edmon Ryan as Red Mike
Lawrence Anderson as Tracy - Press Agent
Blake Dorn as Benny the Gent
Peter Gawthorne as Assistant Commissioner Sir Brian Moore
Henry Hallett as Smithers - Solicitor
Warren Jenkins as Foreign Dancer
Michael Rennie as Ship's Officer
Doris Rogers as Mrs. Sherman Van Tuyl

Critical reception

In a contemporary review, The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "There is less, and less elaborate, singing and dancing than in previous Jessie Matthews' films, but the slight story is amusingly developed, the dialogue is good, Jessie Matthews herself gives a very good light comedy performance and the film as a whole scores on its comedy, and on its burlesque of American gangsters rather than on its music. Nat Pendleton and Noel Maddison are good as the tough gangsters and Alistair Sim as a very secret detective walks away with the picture in the few short scenes in which he appears. Barry Mackay gives a pleasing light performance and keeps the romance in the right key".^[5] Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review, complaining of the "pitiably amateurish direct[ion]" and the writing as "hardly distinguished". Greene praised the acting of Sim, but concluded that "the best one can say of Gangway is that it is better than [Hale's] previous picture".^[6] More recently, the BFI Screenonline wrote, "it is one of the more enjoyable Matthews vehicles and is fast moving enough to please most audiences."^[3]

References

^ "Gangway (1937)". Archived from the original on 17 August 2017.
^ "Gangway (1937)". IMDb.
^ ^a ^b "BFI Screenonline: Gangway (1937)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^ http://www.jessiematthews.co.uk/gangway.htm (Wayback Machine 2018-09-02)
^ "Monthly Film Bulletin review". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^ Greene, Graham (7 October 1937). "The Road Back/Gangway". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 173. ISBN 0192812866.)

External links

Gangway at IMDb
Gangway at the BFI's Screenonline

v t e The films of Sonnie Hale
Head over Heels (1937) Gangway (1937 ) Sailing Along (1938)

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