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  1. Heat Lightning (film) Heat Lightning. (film) Heat Lightning is a 1934 pre-Code drama film starring Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, and Preston Foster. It is based on the play of the same name by Leon Abrams and George Abbott . The movie was one of the latter to be released before the Motion Picture Production Code was rigorously enforced.

  2. Heat Lightning: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot. A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • 1934-03-03
  3. While The Petrified Forest, though equally stagebound, is the more accomplished film, Heat Lightning remains a fascinating Pre-Code oddity with a proto-feminist heroine, risqué dialogue and scenes ripe with sexual innuendo. MacMahon plays Olga, a woman with a past who has started a new life for herself in a remote prairie outpost away from the ...

    • Mervyn Leroy
    • Aline Macmahon
  4. Heat Lightning (1934) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Oscars SXSW Film Festival Cannes Film Festival STARmeter ...

  5. Aug 4, 2017 · Heat Lightning is infused with atmosphere, a mix of lackadaisical waiting and sinister yearning on an endless night. The desert setting of the film resonates from the screen as the distant storms keep them surrounded. Sex permeates the air as something forbidden but limiting; any escape it offers comes at a price.

    • 61 min
    • 1934
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  6. Heat Lightning, a film I had never heard of, is a little gem, a perfect example of what could happen when a pre-Code film hits on all cylinders. “Just goes to show that a woman can do anything she puts her mind to.” Sisters Olga (Aline MacMahon) and Myra (Ann Dvorak) run a service station-café-motor court somewhere in a California desert.

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  8. Nov 11, 2019 · Heat Lightning 1934 Storyline. In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra’s desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno ...

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