I’ve been following this Twitter account over the past few months. She posts about movies all the time, and it’s mostly older movies, with an emphasis on deep cut screwball comedies and the like, so that’s like catnip to me.
So I’ve been buying movies, but haven’t watched any of them yet — this is the first, and it better be good!
I think he likes her!
This is indeed pretty amusing, and the plot is very original — James Cagney works for United Fruit and keeps the banana plantation running, being all hyper competent and everything. But on the other hand, it’s not totally unsympathetic towards the revolutionaries either? And the guy who runs United Fruit is a total asshole, so…
But it’s a pretty odd movie.
Ann Sheridan is fantastic as the hard nosed quick witted card shark.
I like the movie — it’s satisfyingly weird — and there’s some really good jokes in there. But there could have been more jokes? More hi-jinx?
Torrid Zone. William Keighley. 1940. ⚃
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