Teddy Knox Movies
- 1960
This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are busy sweeping up for the almost bankrupt circus they work for. The owner of a rival carnival endeavors to put them out of business for good. The Crazies manage to foil his evil scheme after they find a magical oil lamp containing a helpful genie. Along the way, the troupe performs a variety of specialty acts including a comic trapeze act, juggling, magic, cornball jokes, and songs, which include: "Life is a Circus", "For You, For You", and "Underneath the Arches". ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, (more)
The popular British troupe The Crazy Gang do their zany thing in this fast-paced comedy adventure. The story begins as the Gang balloon themselves over enemy lines. There they become friends with a crazy old prisoner who has the plans for a tunnel-boring tank tattooed upon his back. To get him out, they dress him up as Hitler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1939
The Crazy Gang, a pre-Monty Python group of British "nut" comedians, were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962. In The Frozen Limits, the comic sextet--Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold--head to Alaska to take advantage of the 1898 Gold Rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939, and no one is in a rush anymore--but better late than never. The Crazy Gang's antics are here amplified by the presence of old codger Moore Marriott, on leave from his regular stint in Britain's Will Hay films. Frozen Limits was directed by Marcel Varnel, a competent journeyman best known to American film buffs for his co-direction (with William Cameron Menzies) of Chandu the Magician (32). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1938
The continued adventure of the magic button that was crafted from the metal of Aladdin's magic lamp. Alf finds that this newfound device makes him master of his own fate. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1937
Remember the 3 Stooges Movie Maniacs, in which Curly, Larry and Moe are accidentally put in charge of a movie studio? Apparently, Britain's "Crazy Gang" remembered the Stooge film as well, since the same plotline pops up in Okay for Sound. Originally three separate comedy teams organized for a single act at London's Palladium in 1935. The Crazy Gang was the rough equivalent to Hollywood's Marx Brothers, though their particular brand of insanity was distinctly British. Billed as "studio disorganizers," our six heroes -- Jimmy Nervo & Teddy Knox, Bud Flanagan & Chesney Allen and Charlie Naughton & Jimmy Gold -- are mistaken for a group of wealthy investors and are given full run of the studio owned by the ulcerated Goldberger (Fred Duprez). The boys manage to disrupt the super-production directed by bombastic German filmmaker Guggenheimer (Meinhart Maur), and to chase away the real investors, all the while performing their peculiar stage specialties. Okay for Sound was the first of five hilarious Crazy Gang vehicles produced between 1937 and 1954 (the team would remain intact until 1962!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, (more)
- 1930
Previously filmed in 1920, W. A. Darlington's comedy-fantasy Alf's Button was remade as a talkie ten years later. Tubby Endlin stars as WWI "Tommy" Alf Higgins, who learns to his delight and amazement that a button on his jacket was fashioned from Aladdin's lamp. Rubbing the button for luck, Alf summons forth a genie named Eustace (Humberston Wright), who grants him the traditional three wishes. The film makes occasional side-trips to the land of Arabian Nights, these scenes photographed in the pleasing pastels of Pathe color. The material may have been old hat by 1930, but Alf's Button reportedly clocked 203 laughs at its London premiere. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alf Goddard
