The Frozen Limits

The Frozen Limits
Opening titles
Directed byMarcel Varnel
Written by
Produced byEdward Black
Starring
CinematographyArthur Crabtree
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • November 1939 (1939-11)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Frozen Limits is a 1939 British comedy western film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Jimmy Nervo, Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Chesney Allen and Charlie Naughton (The Crazy Gang).[1][2] It was written by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest and J. O. C. Orton.[3] Produced by Gainsborough Pictures it was shot at Islington Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky.

Plot

Fairground entertainers The Six Wonder Boys are doing poor business, and read in the newspaper which wrapped their fish and chips that there is a gold rush in Alaska. Off they go, without realising the paper was 40 years old. On arrival they are shown hospitality by Tom Tiddler, an elderly, absent-minded gold prospector. For fun, the boys fake a new gold rush, and chaos ensues.

Cast

Reception

Box office

According to Kine Weekly it did well at the British box office in January 1940.[4]

Critical

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story ... does not matter in this film, in which the Crazy Gang are at their crazy best. Ably seconded by Moore Marriott as an old prospector, they go from one ridiculous situation to another with the utmost aplomb while jokes crackle like fireworks on a frosty night. The settings are intentionally ludicrous, the photography adequate, while the direction allows the gang to get suitably out of hand."[5]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The responsibility of putting the laughable stunts over is more or less left to the Crazy Gang, and their exuberant buffoonery hallmarks the welcome humour."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Frozen Limits". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
  2. ↑ Mundy, John (2007). The British musical film. Manchester University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0719063213.
  3. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (1 December 2024). "Forgotten British Film Moguls: Ted Black". Filmink. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  4. ↑ Billings, Josh (9 January 1941). "Quality maintained despite blitz conditions". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 26.
  5. ↑ "The Frozen Limits". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 6 (61): 200. 1 January 1939. ProQuest 1305807618.
  6. ↑ "The Frozen Limits". Kine Weekly. 273 (1698): 17. 2 November 1939. ProQuest 2339776924.
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