Skylarks

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Skylarks
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Written byRussell G. Medcraft
Produced byJohn W. Gossage
Starring
Music by Percival Mackey
Production
company
Reunion Films
Distributed by British Lion
Release date
  • December 1936 (1936-12)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox and Nancy Burne. [1] [2] Nervo and Knox were a comic team, who became associated with the larger Crazy Gang grouping with whom they subsequently appeared in several films. It is a partially lost film, with only a short soundless fragment surviving. The team's earlier film It's in the Bag , their 1936 sound debut, does still survive.

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  1. BFI.org
  2. Low p.386

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