James Cagney and a few of his Warner Bros friends having fun out in the tropics! Perhaps too much fun and crazy antics, for this lacked substance. Feels like something they splashed together at the spur of the moment. Not necessary a bad thing when with Cagney & pals....

i, too, want to throw myself on top of Ann Sheridan and make her start moaning.

Briskly paced and full of zippy dialog. Hustlers, swindlers, outlaws and lots of bananas, this one is entertaining enough but never reaches "really good".

Dull drama that even pairing Cagney and O’Brien with the brilliant Ann Sheridan can’t rescue. There are some nice character beats but mostly it’s poor stuff.

I knew this would be trouble when they waited 20 minutes to introduce Cagney. He and Ann Sheridan are great together, and Andy Devine is fun as always, but there's not much meat on this bone.

A banana plantation owner (Pat O'Brien) hires a tough guy (James Cagney) to look after everything but an escaped bandit (George Tobias) causes some trouble as does a woman (Ann Sheridan).

This is a slightly entertaining film that offers some nice performances but in the end there's nothing too special with the screenplay, which at times wonders around. O'Brien steals the show as the tough talking owner and this is one exception where he steals the film from Cagney. Cagney is decent in his role but he doesn't bring too much energy to the film. I'm not a fan of Sheridan but she's actually very good her delivering a tough performance. Tobias is great as the villain and Andy Devine offers nice comic support. The cast makes the film entertaining but I wish the screenplay had tried to do a tad bit more. The movie is pretty light weight, which keeps it from being better.

i, too, want to throw myself on top of Ann Sheridan and make her start moaning.

Briskly paced and full of zippy dialog. Hustlers, swindlers, outlaws and lots of bananas, this one is entertaining enough but never reaches "really good".

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Cagney and O'Brien farm bananas on a tropical plantation. Cagney sports a sleazy pencil 'tache and romances Ann Sheridan (who sings a tune in a sweaty nightclub). Andy Devine is here too. Keep an eye out for George SUPERMAN Reeves.

Steamy hot and very funny. This tropical comedy-adventure, set in a Warners mockup of a plantation in Honduras, has James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien shouting double-entendres at breakneck speed. Sheridan is sultry and rowdy as a vagrant nightclub entertainer wandering through the jungle nightclub circuit and taking the natives' minds off banana picking. O'Brien plays the tough plantation manager, and Cagney, with a mustache, is the breezy, belligerent foreman who deals with a crisis a minute, including George Tobias as a revolutionary, Andy Devine as a hopelessly incompetent No. 1 Boy, and cucumber-cool Helen Vinson, always a troublemaker. The picture borders on satirical farce; the target is the typical Hollywood treatment of South American bandits and tropical passions. William Keighley directed, from a script by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald; cinematography by James Wong Howe.

James Cagney and a few of his Warner Bros friends having fun out in the tropics! Perhaps too much fun and crazy antics, for this lacked substance. Feels like something they splashed together at the spur of the moment. Not necessary a bad thing when with Cagney & pals....