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Heat Wave (1935)
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Comedy, Music · 1h 12m
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.
Cast
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
C. Denier Warren
Col. D'Alvarez
B
Bruce Winston
Lerone
Edmund Willard
Hoffman
Finlay Currie
Captain
G
Grace Poggi
Dancer
E
Ernest Sefton
Man in Post Office
Crew
- Director
- Maurice Elvey
- Screenplay
- Austin Melford
- Writer
- Leslie Arliss, Jerome Jackson
- Director of Photography
- Glen MacWilliams
- Editor
- Paul Capon
Details
- Release date
- 1935-05-30
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gainsborough Pictures