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Torrid Zone (1940) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by William Keighley and produced by Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney and Mark Hellinger.

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Mr. Steve Case: [walking in while Lee and Nick are kissing] Necking like a couple of high school kids!
Lee Donley: [wisecracking] You interrupted a post-graduate course.


Mr. Steve Case: [to the engineer of an overdue train] How'd you come? By way of Jersey City?


Wally Davis: I smell a drink! I smell two drinks!
Nick Butler: You smell!


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When Frank Puglia says, "I don't believe in a third term," he was referring to the then speculative run of Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as U. S. President in 1940.
George Reeves, Victor Varconi, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale and George Tobias all tested for the role of Rosario, with the part going to Tobias.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 25, 1942 with George Tobias again reprising his film role.
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