This is another one of those movies that’s mainly a way to string together a bunch of musical numbers and call it a film… and also featuring Mae West, but it’s not a typical West vehicle, because she isn’t in it all that much.
Despite all that, this is much better than it has any reason to be. I guess it’s a testament to how good the Hollywood professionals were back then: They could take a nothing-much concept like this and make it into a really amusing movie.
And Mae West has several dozen of funny one-liners to hand out at any given moment.
This is the performer that’s given the most screen time, I think? And looking it up, she has to be Hazel Scott…
Yes, it’s during WWII, so we get a couple of patriotic numbers, too.
And this thing — a Gardening for Victory skit that seems to come out of nowhere, but I assume was sponsored by the gummint.
It’s a pretty madcap movie.
With a whole bunch of characters with character.
imdb hates it.
The Heat’s On. Gregory Ratoff. 1943. ⚄
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