That was an excellent one.

Dreadfully Boring

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Utterly ridiculous and ultimately a bad movie with James Cagney, George Tobias, Ann Sheridan and others.As a revolutionary, Tobias turns the tables on the chief of police twice by devising the same exact trip.As the executive of a fruit company, Pat O'Brien gets Cagney to remain to manage things as current manager, Jerome Cowan, proves himself to be inept. In the meantime, Cowan's wife constantly throws herself at Cagney. This all changes when Sheridan, a nightclub singer, comes to town, but is immediately harassed by the O'Brien character.Throughout this mess, Cagney and Sheridan fall in and out of harmony.There is the usual shootout with Tobias and his fiery band of revolutionaries.

. . . and forgot to cast Bob? It might look a lot like TORRID ZONE. Only the steam engines are hot in this picture. James Cagney and Pat O'Brien try to get their staccato patter up to gangster film Tommy gun speed, but instead they go bananas. They probably don't know Who's on First, what with wondering who's on Gloria. Set in a so-called "banana republic," but filmed on Warner Bros.' back lot, there's not much to see, and even less to think about. Executions are more frequently threatened than the implausibly absent tropical rains, but it's all tongue-in-cheek. Ugly Americans may rule the roost, but why not, since the bananas are being grown for U.S. consumption? Perhaps the best time to view TORRID ZONE is when you're slicing up the yellow boomerangs into Jello or atop a bowl of cereal. But James Cagney is not yet a YANKEE DOODLE DANDY here, and his comic timing seems way off. Though there's one topical joke about FDR running for a third term, you'd never know the world as at war watching this twilight--Er, TORRID ZONE.

"Torrid Zone" is a fine fast-paced action/comedy/romance film starring one of America's favorite tough guys, "oomph" girls, and Irishmen: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien, respectively. Featuring mounds of witty dialogue, this film takes place south of the border in Puerto Aguilar, where the cheap cigar-chomping son-of-a-bitch scoundrel Steve Case (O'Brien), general manager of a struggling fruit company, finesses the mustachioed wiseass Nick Butler (Cagney), who he needs to be the foreman at his banana plantation, to postpone his plans to leave for the States. Along for the ride is the glamorous entertainer Lee Donley (Sheridan), an adorable card shark extraordinaire who can wisecrack with the best of them. And that's only the beginning, folks. Add a colorful group of supporting players such as Andy Devine, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan, and George Tobias, and you have a smashingly good flick. Two memorable scenes include the opening number "Mi Caballero" sung by Lee Donley, and the exciting shoot-out between the plantation workers and the banditos. In closing, my favorite characters in this film are the aforementioned completely unlikable Steve Case, the notorious yet likable bandito Rosario La Mata (brilliantly portrayed by George Tobias), and the absolutely lovable but dimwitted Wally Davis (Andy Devine).

Good movie - love the way Ann Sheridan goes head to head toe to toe with Cagney in some very snappy dialogue.