Comedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.


If you hate loud people screaming at each other for seventy minutes, just skip this one right now. But if you have a soft spot for messy, pre-code chaos and Lupe Velez throwing plates, Hot Pepper is actually a lot of fun. It is basically Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing their usual bickering frenemies. This tim...

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"If you hate loud people screaming at each other for seventy minutes, just skip this one right now. But if you have a soft spot for messy, pre-code chaos and Lupe Velez throwing plates, Hot Pepper is actually a lot of fun. It is basically Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing their usual bickering frenemies. This time they are ex-marines running a nightclub and acting like toddlers. Then Lupe Velez enters the picture and the whole movie goes off the rails in the best way. She does not just ac..."

Lupe Velez
Maxwell Anderson, Philip Klein, Dudley Nichols, Barry Conners, Laurence Stallings, Tom Dugan, Bert Hanlon
United States

