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The Black Hand Gang is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Wee Georgie Wood, Viola Compton and Alfred Wood. [1] It was made by British International Pictures and based on a play by Black Hand George by Bert Lee and R.P. Weston. Shot at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie, it was released as a second feature. [2]
Sky Movies wrote, "Formby's on form – especially singing 'Keep Your Seats, Please' and 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' – Florence Desmond's a much stronger leading lady than George usually had, and Alastair Sim made one of his first major impacts in films as the unscrupulous lawyer who also has his beady eye on the hidden fortune".
Banks was born Mario Bianchi in Cesena, Italy.In 1914, Bianchi emigrated to the United States, first trying his luck on the New York stage. By 1918, he was an actor in Hollywood with the Arbuckle Company, performing in over 35 silent short comedies by the early 1920s, [2] and then, starring in feature-length action comedy-thrillers as Play Safe (1927).
The Black Hand", written by novelist/screenwriter James Dalessandro. In My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell's collection of his feature articles from the 1930s, Petrosino appears as "Louis Sittenberg, the famous New York detective who was killed on a trip to Italy to bring back a Black Hand agent." Whether Mitchell's informant was confused or ...
The Black Hand Gang (1930) (uncredited) Uneasy Virtue (1931) as Ada; Old Soldiers Never Die (1931) as Ada; The Wife's Family (1931) as Sally; Doctor Josser K.C. (1931) (uncredited) Strictly Business (1931) as Maureen; What a Night! (1931) as Nora Livingstone; Shadows (1931) as Jill Dexter; The Strangler (1932) as Frances Marsden; The House ...
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Uh-Huh answered most of his questions with a drawn-out "Uh-huuuuuh". After 1933, Collum was used as an extra whenever a large group of children was needed. He appeared in many films from 1934 to 1938. His final appearance in the Our Gang series is in the 1938 short Three Men in a Tub.
Chesney Allen withdrew from live performances in later years due to ill health, though he outlived all the others. The Gang made a television series, The Gang Show, in 1956. The Gang was understudied by Peter Glaze. Among the other acts who worked with The Crazy Gang was the tall and rotund American percussionist Teddy Brown.