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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569796683
Feature: Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his way to Chicago, to take over a job as a manager for another company himself. He has also troubles with US night-club singer Lee Donley, whom he wants aboard a ship back to the US, and rebel Rosario. He is able to get Nick to the pl
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0SpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 79668
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 1940
Features:- Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his way to Chicago, to take over a job as a manager for another company himself. He has also troubles with US night-club singer Lee Donley, whom he wants aboard a ship back to the US, and rebel Rosario. He is able to get Nick to the pl
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Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his way to Chicago to take over a job as a manager for another company himself. He has also troubles with US night-club singer Lee Donley whom he wants aboard a ship back to the US and rebel Rosario. He is able to get Nick to the plantation but is he able to keep him there or will he leave it in a few days with Gloria the wife of the former exectutive of No 7 Mr. Anderson?System Requirements:Runtime: 88 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 012569796683 Manufacturer No: 79668
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If it ain't the heat it's the humidity--and the humor--that makes Torrid Zone one of the funniest movies that James Cagney ever starred in. This one's a real treat, clocking in at a brisk 88 minutes with rapid-fire double-entendres, tropical banana-republic atmosphere (courtesy of the great cinematographer James Wong Howe), and a satirical send-up of just about every south-of-the-border stereotype that Hollywood ever perpetuated. Cagney borrowed Cesar Romero's mustache for his energetic role as Nick Butler, a smooth operator in Honduras (or rather, the Warner Bros. backlot version of Honduras) who's the best banana plantation foreman in the business. Big-shot plantation owner Steve Case (played by Cagney's favorite costar, Pat O'Brien) needs Nick's magic touch to deliver his crop on time, but there's a few complications: Not only is Nick trading gunfire with a local revolutionary (played to the hilt by George Tobias), but he's quite happily distracted by Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), a savvy chanteuse who can hold her own--and a slick deck of cards--with the big boys. Add some generous comic support from Andy Devine as an incompetent plantation-hand, and additional mischief from Helen Vinson as a sultry seductress (is their any other kind?), and you've got a hot date for fun in the sun.
Cagney's clearly having a blast with his frequent director William Keighley, and Sheridan keeps her costars on their toes, performing a zesty nightclub routine and effortlessly earning her title as Hollywood's "Oomph Girl," a nickname that originated with Warner's well-orchestrated 1939 publicity campaign that made her a star. Available separately or as part of the James Cagney Signature Collection, this first-rate comedy comes with a variety of Warner Bros.' "Night at the Movies 1940" short subjects, recreating the 1940 moviegoing experience with musical short featuring Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra, the historical short "Pony Express Days," and the Oscar-nominated Bugs Bunny cartoon "A Wild Hare." Two 1940 movie trailers are also included, for The Torrid Zone (which critics compared favorably to the comedy classic The Front Page) and the Errol Flynn warped-history adventure Santa Fe Trail. --Jeff Shannon
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I enjoyed the heck out of this wonderful classic! I laughed till I cried at some of the lines in this beautiful movie! 4 out of 5 stars!!!
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Torrid Zone pretty much IS The Front Page with a smattering of Red Dust for added flavor, with Pat O'Brien (who played Walter Burns in the original Broadway production and Hildy Johnson in the 1931 film of the newspaper classic) the unscrupulous banana exporter trying to trick Jimmy Cagney's plantation manager back into his old job in a corrupt South American hellhole, with Ann Sheridan's singer-cum-card-sharp providing the romantic sparks and George Tobias' loveable revolutionary making things difficult ... Read More
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Torrid Zone, starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien, is a movie from 1940, that is full of humor, adventure, action and great characters. Everybody in the movie is perfect for their parts, the timing of the jokes and lines are right on target and the ending makes you feel good. This is the eighth movie that Cagney and O'Brien teamed up for and it shows. They really know how to work together.
Cagney plays a banana plantation foreman who wants to get out of the business but is offered ... Read More
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This is one of my favorite Cagney movies. Then again, Cagney was my favorite actor of all-time, so there are quite a number of "favorites". I won't go into describing the movie because someone else has already done an excellent job of that. Cagney and Sheridan were paired up in several movies, most notably, Torrid Zone, Angels With Dirty Faces (my favorite Cagney film) and City For Conquest (another favorite). He was paired up with Pat O'Brien even more. O'Brien was also in Angels...
Of course, ... Read More
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Warner Brothers was always a studio which did not hesitate to copy the output of others. This hilarious film, made in 1940, is a cocktail of "The Front Page", "Red Dust", "Only Angels have Wings" and others with a showcase role for the very special Ann Sheridan who had been nicknamed "The Oomph Girl" after a major publicity build up in 1939.
The film is set on a banana plantation run by Pat O'Brien who employs James Cagney to help get the crop out on time. Cagney is playing around with the manager's ... Read More
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