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directed by Mervyn LeRoy
USA 1934
| The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive – two bejeweled divorcees and Olga’s old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that also includes Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly, Frank McHugh and Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) ramps up pre-Code wisecracking and vise-like tension into an emotional wallop of an ending. |
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Theatrical Release: 3 March 1934 (USA)
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DVD Review: Warner Home Video (Warner Archive Collection) - Region 0 - NTSC
Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the Review!
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in: Ripped From the Headlines! Get five remastered Warner Bros. classics that are as pertinent today as they were in the '30s. Featuring some of Warner Bros. biggest studio stars of the day, these coarse, gritty, mostly pre-Code melodramas are ripe for rediscovery. 5 DVDs - limit 1 per customer! This package available HERE includes: Alias the Doctor (1932), Blondie Johnson (1933), From Headquarters (1933), Heat Lightening (1934), and Black Fury (1935) that may be bought individually.
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| Runtime | 1:03:16 |
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1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
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NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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| Audio | Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (English) |
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Information: Studio: Warner Home Video Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 21 |
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Heat
Lighting is, perhaps, the best movie released in the
latest Warner Archive bundle set "Warner Bros. '30s
Classics Ripped From the Headlines" (more on it
below). It stars fan-favorite Ann Dvorak as a younger
sister running a middle-of-nowhere diner and gas
station. But it's Aline MacMahon, playing her older
sister and seen recently in another Warner Archive
release of her film debut
Five Star Final () who steals the film. Based on
a stage play, Heat Lighting has some similarities
with another, more famous play-to-the-screen Warner
picture
The Petrified Forest, released just 2 years
later and elevated to A-picture.
The film can be purchased separately or, exclusive to Warner Archives web page, as so called "Warner Bros. '30s Classics Ripped From the Headlines" (HERE) with 4 other early 1930's movies we are reviewing at DVD Beaver, which would make it a better value. |
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