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Title: Heat Lightning


Date: 1934
Type: Crime / Drama
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer:

Comment
A woman (Aline MacMahon) and her younger sister (Ann Dvorak) run a service station and diner in the desert. Their lives are disrupted by the arrival of a pair of thieves (Preston Foster and Lyle Talbot) who knew her from her past and a pair a wealthy recently divorced women and their chauffeur. There is a mix of women wanting to run their own lives but men always intervening, there is some build up to the climax and some nice comic asides (Glenda Farrell and Ruth Donnelly). Aline MacMahon gives a good performance as the world weary woman trying to put her past behind her, but Ann Dvorak has little to work with. There are loose parallels to the later Petrified Forrest, but this has less of the psychology in it, making it a lighter watch.

Actors

Aline MacmahonAline MacMahon
Ann DvorakAnn Dvorak
preston FosterPreston Foster
Lyle TalbotLyle Talbot
Frank McHughFrank McHugh
Glenda FarrellGlenda Farrell
Ruth DonnellyRuth Donnelly
Theodore Newton
Jane DarwellJane Darwell

Oscars

None