Hot Pepper is a comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 starring Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924. By the end of the decade she had...

, Edmund Lowe

Edmund Lowe

Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California.-Film career:...

, and Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.-Early life:...

, directed by John G. Blystone

John G. Blystone

John G. Blystone was an American film director. He directed 100 films between 1915 and 1938.He was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. His grave is located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.-Relatives:John Blystone's brother was actor Stanley...

 and released by Fox Film Corporation. The film appeared before the enforcement of the Production Code

Production Code

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.

This film is considered an installment in the series of films dating back to the silent film What Price Glory? (1926), starring Lowe and McLaglen in their characters of Sergeant Harry Quirt and Captain Jim Flagg with Dolores Del Rio

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...

 as the female costar. The pair made a sequel to that film called The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World is a musical film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed and written Raoul Walsh, based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings...

(1929), costarring Lili Damita

Lili Damita

Lili Damita was a French actress who appeared in 33 movies between 1922 and 1937.-Early life and education:...

. Two other films followed before Hot Pepper.

Cast

• Edmund Lowe
  Edmund Lowe
  Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California.-Film career:...
  
   - Harry Quirt
• Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924. By the end of the decade she had...
  
   - Pepper
• Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.-Early life:...
  
   - Jim Flagg
• El Brendel
  El Brendel
  El Brendel was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect schtick as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine , produced by Fox Film Corporation...
  
   - Olsen
• Lillian Bond - Hortense
• Boothe Howard - Trigger Thomas
• Gloria Roy - Lily
• Andre Cheron - Maitre d'
• Russ Clark - Egan (uncredited)

External links

• Hot Pepper at IMDB
• Hot Pepper at AllRovi
• Hot Pepper lobby poster at Moviegoods
• Hot Pepper American release poster