The Gang Show is a 1937 British musical film about a Boy Scout Troop who stage a variety show to raise funds, when the lease of their meeting place expires.

The film was a vehicle for material from Ralph Reader's Gang Shows that had been successful on the stage in London's West End since 1932;^[1] the songs included the Gang Show anthem; "Crest of a Wave".^[2] Shot at Pinewood Studios,^[3] the film premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 13 April 1937, the only occasion that the theatre was used as a cinema.^[4] It was released in New York in December 1938 under the shortened title The Gang.^[5]

Cast

• Ralph Reader as Skipper
• Gina Malo as Marie
• Stuart Robinson as Raydon
• Richard Ainley as Whipple
• Leonard Snelling as Len
• Syd Palmer as Syd
• Roy Emerton as the Proprietor
• Percy Walsh as McCulloch

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