Heat Wave

Heat Wave - 1935 | 72 mins | Comedy, Musical | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Maurice Elvey.
Producer: Jerome Jackson.
Script: Leslie Arliss, Jerome Jackson and Austin Melford.
Cinematography: Glen MacWilliams.
Film Editing: Paul Capon.
Art Direction: Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
Sound Department: H. Hand.
Original Music: Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman and Maurice Sigler.
Musical Direction: Louis Levy.

The Cast

Albert Burdon - Albert Speed
Cyril Maude - President Allison
Les Allen - Tom Brown
Anna Lee - Jane Allison
Vera Pearce - Gloria Spania

Plot Synopsis

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.