Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone

1940. USA. Directed by William Keighley. Sheridan appears in her fully ravishing, red-headed glory in a major Warner production that featured her alongside two of the studio’s strongest male leads, James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. Sheridan, a tough-talking American chanteuse stuck without cash in a banana republic, gets involved in the rivalry between a fruit company’s shipping manger (O’Brien) and its number one plantation overseer (Cagney), as the local revolutionary (George Tobias) tries to topple it all. Photographed in tropical sepia tones by the great James Wong Howe. 87 min.