Heat Lightning (film)

Heat Lightning is a 1934 PreCode 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.

Olga Aline MacMahon runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot desert of the American Southwest with the help of her discontented younger sister Myra Ann Dvorak. The sisters clash when Olga forbids Myra from going to a dance with her boyfriend Steve.That same day, chance sends Olga an unexpected and unwelcome customer, exboyfriend George Preston Foster. Unbeknownst to her, George and his nervous partner Jeff Lyle Talbot are on the run from the police after a botched robbery that left two men dead, killed by George. Initially intent on sneaking across the border to Mexico, George decides to stay awhile when two jewelryladen, wealthy divorcees, Feathers Tifton Glenda Farrell and Tinkle AshtonAshley Ruth Donnelly, are stranded there for the night by their longsuffering chauffeur Frank Frank McHugh. Frank pretends there is something wrong with their car so he can have a rest from driving. Olga, the mechanic, plays along. When Mrs. AshtonAshley becomes worried about a large Mexican family spending the night nearby, Olga offers to store the womens valuables in her safe. ........

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