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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">   <p>Broadway producer Ferris' (William Gaxton) latest show bombs, and on top of that, his star leading lady Fay Lawrence (Mae West) announces she will leave him for another producer, Stanton (Alan Dinehart) now if this isn't a time for desperate measures, what is ?</p> <p>So Ferris hooks up with Hubert Bainbridge (Victor Moore), the mild mannered vice president of a censorship committee, who is left in charge of production as long as his sister Hannah (Almira Sessions) is out of town, who desperately wants to make his niece Janey (Mary Roche) a musical star, and who is nothing if not a pushover.</p> <p>So first, Ferris has Bainbridge shut down his show on grounds of indecency just to get publicity, then he has him tell Stanton that Fay is on the committee's blacklist so Stanton sells Ferris his production, and in the very end, he persuades Ferris to have his committee co-produce the show that is to star his niece <i>and</i> Fay Lawrence.</p> <p>When Fay learns she has been tricked or is about to be tricked by Ferris, she also uses pushover Hubert and persuades him to set things straight with Stanton (by telling him there is no blacklist) - and Stanton in turn phones Hannah, who comes to the Broadway fuming, realizing her whole committee has just been used by a sneaky Broadway producer, and she threatens to create an uproar ... thus it's once again up to Fay to calm her down and set everything right ...</p> <p> </p> <p><b>The Heat's On</b> was Mae West's last film for 27 years (until <b>Myra Breckinridge</b>), and even though it's one of the few films not written by her, it might be closer to her actual bio than all her previous films combined, as she also had run-ins with various censor boards in real life, even during her theatre-career in the 1920's. However, despite being top-billed in <b>The Heat's On</b> her character has hardly more than supporting role status, and the film - at least the scenes she isn't in - belongs to William Gaxton and Victor Moore.</p> <p>As a whole, <b>The Heat's On</b> is nothing special, but a nice comedy about the shortcomings of self-appointed censor boards - maybe a tad too nice. But still, one has to give a film poking fun at censorship boards at least some credit ...</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2007"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>