Heat Wave (1935 film)
Appearance
Heat Wave | |
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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
Written by | Leslie Arliss Jerome Jackson Austin Melford |
Starring | Albert Burdon Cyril Maude Les Allen |
Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams |
Edited by | Paul Capon |
Music by | Louis Levy |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release date | May 1935 |
Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Heat Wave is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Albert Burdon, Cyril Maude and Les Allen. A British vegetable salesman accidentally gets mixed up in a planned revolution in South America.
It was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures.[1] The film's sets were designed by the Austrian art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
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
References
- ^ Wood p.82
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.