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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... See
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Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: Leon Abrams (from the original play by), George Abbott (from
the original play by) | 2 more credits »
Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster | See full cast &
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Summaries
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, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels.
George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga's heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off
with her beau. It's hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga's life of peace and hard
work in the desert about to change for the worse?

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Desert heat, strangers meet, violence flares -- granddaddy of the genre
Gary Imhoff16 October 1999
This
predecessor of The Petrified Forest (criminals on the lam change the lives of assorted characters at an isolated
lunchroom) shows its origin as a Broadway play, but it's faster moving, less pretentious, and a lot less talky than
the better known movie. The large cast is wonderful, especially the great Aline MacMahon; their characters well defined;
and the direction and cinematography are crisp and professional. It's well worth the hour it takes to watch it.
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Strong B-picture with
precode interest
goblinhairedguy6 February 2006
A fine example of minimalist film-making, this Warners B-pic
offers a proto-feminist scenario delivered with some swell precode attitude. Two sisters (one world-weary, the other
innocent) run a service-station-cum-caravansary on an isolated desert highway. Every passerby kids them about how dull
and lonely this existence must be, but in the space of one night they serve host to a pair of criminals on the run, a
couple of gold-diggers on the way back from Reno with their swag (and with a wise-guy chauffeur), plus a large family of
Mexicans on the way to a fiesta.

The main thrust of the film is melodramatic, as even in their isolation the
women cannot avoid mistreatment by treacherous men. However, it's also filled with neat little comic bits and
clever wisecracks. Director Mervyn Le Roy creates plenty of atmosphere with few resources, and the cheap-jack
desert-palms backdrop (with the Mexican father tenderly serenading his family in the background) sticks in the memory.
Le Roy uses an almost slow-motion tracking shot to great effect to show the hallucinatory influence of an ex-lover on
the older sister as he intrudes into this sweaty environment. And it's pretty clear that there's a lot of
casual sleeping around going on -- a lot of the jokes and situations probably wouldn't have survived the censors if
this were a more prominent picture (and definitely not a year later). But the picture never flaunts its raciness -- sex
is just part of the fabric of life.

Though consistently enjoyable, the movie never builds up enough intensity
to be classed with the immortal second features like Detour (though the climax does pack a punch). Surprisingly, the two
leads never really click. Aline MacMahon and Ann Dvorak were always marvelously idiosyncratic in supporting roles, but
here the former's baroque style seems overdone for the milieu, and the latter doesn't have much opportunity to
vent her repressed passion (maybe the censor trimmed that bit). Overall, though, the performances from the many familiar
faces are excellent, my particular favorite occurring in the opening scene featuring Edgar Kennedy as the henpecked
spouse of Jane Darwell.

Definitely worth seeking out for aficionados (but hard to find). Some might compare
it to The Petrified Forest, but it gives me a bit of an offbeat Shack Out on 101 vibe, too.
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Wonderful Little Film
SumBuddy-324 April
2008
After reading several reviews that enjoyed the film, I almost did not write a comment.

However,
after reading the one comparing it to a poor man's Petrified Forest, I wanted to say that's just plain
unfair.

I, was not around for the New York Times drab review in 1934, like the previous reviewer, but I can
form my own opinion. I really liked the movie. Aline McMahon, pulled off the difficult character of playing a woman
mechanic/business owner, and Preston Foster played the crook on the lam quite believable for the situation he was in.

I personally wish Ann Dvorak had more of a developed part, I always like her, but sadly hers was the least
developed of the several interesting characters in the film. Obviously made on a small budget, it's just unfair to
compare this to Petrified Forest. They are not the same film at all.
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Women Of The Desert
bkoganbing14 March 2010
Heat
Lightning was an early work by George Abbott, written and directed by him in 1933 it had only a run of 44 performances
in that anemic Depression Era season on Broadway. It was not the best work Abbott was ever associated with, but I'm
sure he was grateful that Warner Brothers bought the screen rights in those cash strapped times.

It stars
Aline McMahon and Ann Dvorak as a pair of sisters running a filling station, automobile camp out in the American west,
very similar to the one Bette Davis and her family was running in The Petrified Forest. They're both a bit antsy
being stuck out in the desert without the attention of the male of the species. But McMahon's been around the track
a little too often and she tries to steer Dvorak right.

The guy who gave her that ride a few times is Preston
Foster and he's shown up with pal Lyle Talbot. On the lam as it turns out, but the sisters don't know it.
Foster's putting the moves on Dvorak and McMahon ain't having any of that. Truth be told she's got a bit
of a yen still left and the desert isolation ain't curing the yen.

Some other characters pop up in this
drama, a pair of would be divorcées heading for Reno with their 'chauffeur' played by Glenda Farrell, Ruth
Donnelly and Frank McHugh. Also at the beginning Edgar Kennedy and Jane Darwell are a married couple going west. I wish
we could have seen more of them. In fact I'm surprised that Jack Warner didn't recognize a good potential
comic team there and made more films with them.

As you can see there are a lot of similarities to The
Petrified Forest, but I think that even with the tragedies that befall both Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard there, The
Petrified Forest is a more optimistic play. Bette Davis does get her chance to leave and see the wider world. Not quite
what happens here, but I can't say more.

As compared to some of the legendary work George Abbott was
associated with on stage Heat Lightning is definitely minor league. Yet it's not a bad piece of work, definitely in
keeping with the times. Mervyn LeRoy did a good job in filling the screen and striking a nice balance between the comic
and the dramatic. Very typical of what came from the working man's studio.
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Wonderful...
horsegoggles17 June 2014
I was
very fortunate to DVR a pristine copy of this many years ago on TCM and I have watched it probably 30 times since.

My dad made several auto trips across the US in the twenties and earlier. Though this was 1934, it provides me
with a visual perspective on some of what he may have encountered before there was a national system of highways, or
many paved roads for that matter.

My enjoyment of this film comes mostly from the glimpses into early
motoring. As a kid in the early fifties I made many a trip from California to Iowa with my folks on route 66. Motoring
was not all that sophisticated even in the early fifties and that plays into it as well.

This review/comment
is not so much about the finer points of the movie as it is a statement on how enjoyable it is for me because of the
time in which it was made.

The fact that there is a great little drama playing out and lots of ventures into
quirky personalities and side plots, is just icing on the cake.
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It's a Small World
stoneyburke14 March 2010
Warning:
Spoilers
I enjoyed this film. I posted a Spoiler Alert just in case I say too much. First of all besides the
setting I didn't think it was like The Petrified Forest. The Petrified Forest is a better film and story but this
little mostly unknown flick is good. Olga (MacMahon) is now running a "next gas 200 miles" kind of a
rest-stop/motel in the lonely dreary and hot desert. Unlike Gabriel, where Davis' character who was filled with
optimism, Olga had seen that done that. She's somewhat jaded but still has that spark of something positive.
Preston Foster and Lyle Talbot are on the lam. It's that "of all the gin joints she walks into mine"
kinda thing. Foster and MacMahon were lovers at one time. Foster isn't the nicest fella but when MacMahon sports a
dress and some make-up he with all his smarmy charm shows an inkling of interest. However he's so awful that
it's best that MacMahon not really pursue this. Enough said. Poor Myra, Olga's younger sister, Dvorak, bored
to the gills and wants to have some fun in life. She meets a self-sided loser and is of course saddened even tho'
Olga warned her about men. Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly and Frank McHugh show up who are mainly a diversion even though
parts are paramount to the plot and I'm not divulging same. A family of Mexicans stop by just for atmosphere in my
opinion. What happens near the end is something you'll have to see. Again, the running time of this film is short,
good actors, a bit of comic relief and do not expect The Petrified Forest and enjoy.
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Decent...but it ends very well.
MartinHafer9
September 2014
In many ways, this film reminds me of another Warner Brothers film made just a few years later,
"The Petrified Forest". Both are set at isolated gas stations in the desert and both involve gangsters who
come there to seek shelter. However, the films are certainly different enough to make it worth seeing them both.

Olga (Aline MacMahon) is a world-weary soul who has chosen to move into the middle of nowhere because she's
tired of people. Her sister, Myrna (Ann Dvorak), however, isn't tired of people and yearns for excitement and men--
and the pair couldn't be more different. Into their very dull and predictable lives come an assortment of folks to
stay at their gas station/motor court. One pair are a couple of divorcées on their way from Reno after their latest
conquest. Another are a pair of crooks on the run from the law. In a coincidence you'll only see in a play or
movie, it turns out the boss (Preston Foster) was once Olga's lover! What's next? See the film.

There are two main things going for this film--Foster and MacMahon. Their characters are interesting and the final
scene between them is something to see! Unfortunately, Dvorak's role is very whiny and annoying--and the character
significantly impairs the film with her overwrought performance. Overall, it is worth seeing but is far from brilliant
work from the studio.
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Was There Anyone Quite Like Aline MacMahon??
kidboots29 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
...the
answer is NO!! There wasn't much heat lightning going on in this movie either!! Ann Dvorak had been one of the most
exciting new talents to emerge in the early thirties but her rebellious attitude with studio heads made sure her talent
was kept under a rock and her role as Myra in this film was a part any contract actress could have played. It was just
another nail in the coffin of Ann's once promising career. It was up to good old Aline MacMahon to give some
vitality to her role as Olga, the older sister, who has managed to keep her passions hidden for many years.

This movie appears more like a very watered down version of "The Petrified Forest" without the psychological
undertones and the powerhouse performance of Humphrey Bogart. Preston Foster had shown he could give dynamic
performances (his Killer Meares in "The Last Mile") but unfortunately not in this movie. Olga and Myra run a
road side diner 1,000 miles from anywhere, smart and efficient Olga servicing the cars, Myra yearning to get away. Poor
Ann spends most of the movie with her head in her arms. For a service station, stuck in the middle of nowhere, it does a
brisk trade, there is a bickering older couple, two would be starlets (lively Muriel Evans is billed as a blonde cutie),
two freshly divorced gals on their way back from Reno (Glenda Farrell and Ruth Donnelly) and Jerry (Preston Foster) and
his jittery sidekick (Lyle Talbot) on the run from a bank holdup. Jerry knows Olga from years before, he is the man she
is trying to forget. When he overhears Mrs. Tifton (Farrell) discussing her jewelry he decides to play on Olga's
pent up emotions - and have his friend rob the divorcée, but plans are changed when the women decide to put the
jewelry in the safe. Not only does Olga realise she has been played for a fool but Myra comes home from the party that
she had been forbidden to go to a bit the worse for wear.

For all the "action" (and I use the term
loosely) the movie doesn't seem to go anywhere but amazingly Aline MacMahon gets a part she can really sink her
teeth into. Her Olga is no nonsense and all business but when her past catches up with her she displays vulnerability
and longing in a very real way!!! There was no one like Aline!!!
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Blowsy character-driven piece with some sharp dialogue...though it should
have been grittier
moonspinner5515 March 2010
Interesting drama which bristles with pungent, often very
amusing dialogue. Two sisters (a homely, bossy man-hater and a restless younger beauty who likes to kick up her heels)
battle amongst themselves while running a filling station/diner/motel in the California desert; a pair of casual-acting
bank robbers stop in one afternoon on their way to the border, one of whom knows the elder sister very well. Adaptation
of Leon Abrams and George Abbott's play ran into trouble with the Catholic Legion of Decency in 1934--one presumes
over the frank talk and implications of man-woman intimacy--yet the most surprising thing about this piece is the fact
Aline MacMahon's plain, resentful Olga has a romantic past at all! Possibly conceived at one point as a lesbian,
the character of Olga (who trades in her head-bandanna and dungarees for make-up and a frilly dress) is the story's
central focus, and yet she doesn't emerge as a convincing, fully thought-out creation. The material goes noticeably
soft at the halfway mark to accommodate Olga's actions, making the censorship stories even more ridiculous in
hindsight. Still, the film has a quick pace and a lively cast, colorful patter between the guests, and a satisfying
finish. **1/2 from ****
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high desert caper... look at all those joshua trees
ksf-216 March 2010
... must have been filmed around
Joshua Tree or Lone Pine.. unfortunately, no locations listed as of March 2010. Warner Brothers shortie... but TCM host
Robert Osborne mentioned that the Catholic League wanted changes made, so I wonder if the original play was longer or
even naughtier. Also loved seeing Frank McHugh & Aline MacMahon... McHugh was toned way down for this
part...he's funnier and louder in some of his other roles; MacMahon was the big star of this one.... as one of the
female mechanics (sisters) that run the gas station, they come REAL close to being lesbians, whether or not that was the
intention... Jerry, her ex says: "you're right... you changed plenty!" and when Myra goes out with a guy,
her sister Olga gives her hell when she gets back. When the folks in the car insist it'll take a "darn good
man" to get the radiator cap off, Olga opens it, no problem. Fun, quick story, even if i'm not really sure
what we learned.. I thought it had a lot in common with Key Largo, but lesser known actors in this one.
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Somebody Turn Up the Heat in Here
wes-connors14 March 2010
Grease monkey Aline McMahon (as Olga) runs a "Service Station and Auto Camp"
in the California desert, with help from attractive little sister Ann Dvorak (as Myra). Ms. MacMahon takes care of gas
and gaskets (outside), while Ms. Dvorak serves cold beer and Coca-Cola (inside). MacMahon has sworn off cabarets, after
a bad relationship - but, innocent Dvorak wants to go out and have fun. There are opportunities in the middle of the
desert, as frequent travelers abound.

While discouraging Dvorak, MacMahon has second thoughts about the male
gender after old flame Preston Foster (as George, but MacMahon still calls him "Jerry") chances by the
station, with "peeping Tom" pal Lyle Talbot (as Jeff). The pair are on the lam, after a bank heist and
double-murder. MacMahon covers for Mr. Preston, when the sheriff comes looking for the crooks. MacMahon seems ready to
re-succumb to Preston's masculine charms, but may want to reconsiderÂ… Everyone pretends to be hot, but Mervyn
LeRoy's "Heat Lightning" is all subtest, and no steam. The cast is fun, though.

***** Heat
Lightning (3/3/34) Mervyn LeRoy ~ Aline MacMahon, Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Lyle Talbot
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Great Cast Brings Material Up
Michael_Elliott30 July
2011
Heat Lightning (1934)

** 1/2 (out of 4) 

Sisters Olga (Aline MacMahon) and Myra (Ann
Dvorak) run a small gas station in the Arizona desert where they fight about the youngest sisters wants when it comes to
a different life. Throughout the day a wide range of people stop by the shop including a couple thugs (Preston Foster,
Lyle Talbot) who are wanted for killing a couple men and one of them has a past relationship with Olga. This crime
picture from Warner certainly isn't among their best but the nice cast and short 64-minute running time makes it a
nice little gem as long as you don't go in expecting too much. The first starts off with quite a bit of innuendo
around the older sister Olga and her constantly putting men down. The way she dresses, talks and acts, it really does
seem like this could have been shown during TCM's look at gay and lesbian images in early Hollywood. Her behavior
is explained as the film goes along but that is certainly one thing that really jumped out. For the most part the
characters really aren't all that interesting and the only reason one would pay close attention to them is because
the studio cast some very familiar faces and especially to those who enjoy their "B" movies. Both MacMahon and
Dvorak are good in their parts of the battling sisters and both Foster and Talbot could play heavies in their sleep. The
four have some pretty good scenes together and especially MacMahon and Foster when it comes to talking about their past.
The cast also includes Glenda Farrell playing a sexy idiot, Frank McHugh her driver and we even get Ruth Donnelly and
Edgar Kennedy in small bits. The screenplay is full of the typical stereotype characters you'd expect in a film
like this but the most disappointing thing is that not much happens throughout the running time. The movie is certainly
leading up to final showdown but nothing ever really happens and there just aren't enough twists or turns to keep
any sort of drama going. The movie does include a terrific looking set as I thought the diner was good enough to offer
up some terrific shots and especially those where the camera just looks around the insides and there being windows
everywhere. This allows one to get a 360-look around the place. Some pre-Code elements add to the fun but the main draw
here are the actors.
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A Movie
About Nothing
GManfred10 August 2011
That was how the cast of 'Seinfeld' described their show. But
they were beaten to the punch in 1934 by Warner Bros. with the release of "Heat Lightning", a static and
unfunny comedy/drama taken from the Broadway show of the same name.

The beginning was the best part, with
Edgar Kennedy and Jane Darwell as a bickering married couple. It made you think that the best was yet to come, but no.
The rest of the film is loaded with unnecessary, awkward situations and with the actors seeming ill at ease and mouthing
stilted and clumsy dialogue which often falls flat. I cannot believe George Abbott had a hand in the movie
script and must have been credited since he wrote the play, because this
script is poorly written and lacking humor in humorous situations.

This was a
shame because Warners had assembled a great cast but saddled them with a boring story which lacks action and energy. Ann
Dvorak, an excellent actress, comes off as whiny and annoying and Ruth Donnelly could have sued the
script writer, her comic lines were so prosaic. And a contributor mentioned 'Key
Largo'?! There is no similarity at all. "Heat Lightning" ran only 44 performances on Broadway for a
reason, and I'll bet it wasn't the depression. The four rating points are for the cast despite the fact they
were mistreated.
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This
potboiler is a poor man's "Petrified Forest"...
Neil Doyle18 April 2008
If you can get over the
unlikely pairing of ALINE MacMAHON and PRESTON FOSTER as former lovers and stand the desert heat at a motor court
stranded in the middle of nowhere, you may be able to accept some of the melodramatics of HEAT LIGHTNING.

Nevertheless, I have to agree with The N.Y. Times when it summed it up as: "Drab melodrama with occasional
flashes of forced comedy." The forced comedy is supplied by RUTH DONNELLY and GLENDA FARRELL as two rich dames
being chauffeured by FRANK McHUGH, and in an early scene, JANE DARWELL and EDGAR KENNEDY as a bickering married couple
who stop by for car repair and a coke. Otherwise, it's pretty dreary stuff, with Foster trying to con McMahon and
her sister (ANN DVORAK) out of some money in their safe.

The downbeat ending only emphasizes the dreariness
of the plot which seems to go nowhere fast.
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