Tropic Holiday

• Bob Burns: Breck Jones
• Dorothy Lamour: Manuela
• Ray Milland: Ken Warren
• Martha Raye: Midge Miller
• Binnie Barnes: Marilyn Joyce
• Tito Guízar: Ramon
• Fortunio Bonanova: Barrera
• Irving Bacon: Sol Grunnion

Tropic Holiday is an American comedy film from the year 1938.

Action

Producer Sol Grunnion sends its author Ken Warren to Mexico, which is to be inspired there for a new script. While Ken's secretary Midge Miller fell in love with the charming bard Ramon, Ken is attracted to beautiful attractive Manuela. Their relationship gives him material for the script and at the same time insight into the true meaning of love.

Breck Jones, Midges friend from childhood days, after coming to Mexico to make Midge a marriage proposal. But Midge tells him she was only interested in brave men who can keep up with her. Your attempt to impress Ramon so that they can learn bullfighting is unsuccessful. Ken Breck are the Council to imitate a suicide scene from a movie to wake Midges interest. But Midge is unimpressed. Breck is pulled by a fisherman from the sea. Also, a "fight" with a few paid residents fails because Breck is taken into custody because of the brawl in which a bullfighter gets hurt. The host of bullfighting, Barrera, learns of the violation of his bullfighters and blackmailed Midge. You should now be in the arena, otherwise Breck will remain in prison. Midge accepted.

Marilyn Joyce, Ken's fiancee, travels and wants to bring Ken back to Hollywood so they can get married there. While admits a Marilyn that she does not love Ken, but they feared bad publicity, it should be known that he was in favor of a Mexican unknowns drop. At the same time the bull Furioso is brought into the arena. Midge can dodge the animal again and again, the mad is in anger over time and breaks out of the arena and through the wall of the neighboring prison. The bull appears again, this time with Breck on his back, which can calm the animal. Now Breck Midges is a hero, who is now Marilyn makes known with Ramon, so Ken can continue to stay with Manuela.

Awards

Boris Morros received an Oscar nomination in 1939 for Best Film Music.

Background

The film premiered on June 29, 1938 in New York 's premiere.

The Oscar-nominated Boris Morros was the musical director of the production of Paramount Pictures. The costumes by Edith Head, a choreographer of the dance numbers was LeRoy Prinz, for the camera effects recorded Farciot Edouart responsible.