TORRID ZONE.
James Cagney & Pat O Brien,
Ann Sheridan, Helen Vinson, George Tobias.
Dir: William Keighley, 1940, MGM.

SYNOPSIS:
A memorable teaming up of the old-skool Warner Bros crew in a tale about bandits, a showgirl and a bad-tempered banana plantation manager.

"This is the picture I call Hildy Lohnson Among the Bananas because it's really just a reworking of the play The Front Page. Because the storyline was so terribly predictable, I thought that just to affect some kind of change, I'd grow a moustache. It was rather a silly looking thing.... in any case Torrid Zone proved to be a money maker -- and I suspect that the fact had precious little to do with my moustache."
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"Enjoyable fast paced hokum with a plot borrowed from both the Front Page and Red Dust."
- Leslie Halliwell.