Heat Wave

Heat Wave

Comedy, Music | May 30, 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.

Heat Wave

Comedy, Music | May 30, 1935

Heat Wave
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.
Producers Gainsborough Pictures
Original title Heat Wave
Directors Maurice Elvey
Writers Jerome Jackson, Austin Melford, Leslie Arliss

Cast

Lester Allen

as Tom Brown

Anna Lee

as Jane Allison

Albert Burdon

as Albert Speed

Cyril Maude

as President Allison

Vera Pearce

as Gloria Spania

Bernard Nedell

as Gen. Da Costa

C. Denier Warren

as Col. D'Alvarez

Bruce Winston

as Lerone

Edmund Willard

as Hoffman

Finlay Currie

as Captain

Grace Poggi

as Dancer