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Heat Wave is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Albert Burdon, Cyril Maude and Les Allen.
It was titled The Code originally.[1]
Plot
A British vegetable salesman accidentally gets mixed up in a planned revolution in South America.
Cast
- Albert Burdon as Albert Speed
- Cyril Maude as President Allison
- Les Allen as Tom Brown
- Anna Lee as Jane 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
Production
It was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures.[2] The film's sets were designed by the Austrian art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
References
- ^ "FILM WORLD". The West Australian. Vol. 51, no. 15, 192. Western Australia. 1 March 1935. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Wood p.82
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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