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Released
1938 · FILM

Too Hot to Handle

Love in action on land, sea and air!

Directed by
Runtime
107 min
AdventureComedyDrama

Synopsis

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Frank SullivanShot by Harold RossonScored by Franz Waxman

Box Office

1938 · Box office

Produced on a $1.6M budget

Production budget

$1.6M

Also known as

  • Abenteuer in Chinade
  • Liebe, die vom Himmel fälltde
  • Zu heiß zum Anfassende
  • Sucedió en Chinaes
  • Un envoyé très spécialfr
  • L'amico pubblico nº 1it

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