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.
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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. The film's sets were designed by the Austrian art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
Release
Variety wrote "Plenty of old and surefire gags in this one, but enough original touches to make for pleasing entertainment. Cyril Maude... is a delight... Not too much music to detract from the story, nor too much plot to strain the intellect. Pleasing all- round amusement."