Heat Wave (1935)
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
- Date of release
- 1935-05-30
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Director
- Maurice Elvey
Casting
- Lester Allen — Tom Brown
- Anna Lee — Jane Allison
- Albert Burdon — Albert Speed
- Cyril Maude — President Allison
- Vera Pearce — Gloria Spania
- Bernard Nedell — Gen. Da Costa
- C. Denier Warren — Col. D'Alvarez
- Bruce Winston — Lerone
- Edmund Willard — Hoffman
- Finlay Currie — Captain
- Grace Poggi — Dancer
- Ernest Sefton — Man in Post Office
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