Heat Lightning

Mar 1, 1934

1h 3m

★ 6.8

"I just killed a rat!"

Overview

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Heat Lightning Trailers

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Cast

Olga

Aline MacMahon

Myra

Ann Dvorak

George

Preston Foster

Jeff

Lyle Talbot

Mrs. Tifton

Glenda Farrell

Frank

Frank McHugh

Mrs. Ashton-Ashley

Ruth Donnelly

Steve Laird

Theodore Newton

Everett Marshall

Willard Robertson

'Popsy' - a Businessman

Harry C. Bradley

The Sheriff

James Durkin

Gladys - the Wife

Jane Darwell

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

7.3

Baby Face

Jul 13, 1933

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

5.8

Thunderbolt

Jun 20, 1929

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

5.6

The Unholy Three

Jul 12, 1930

A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.

5.3

Black Moon

Jun 15, 1934

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

6.1

Big Fan

Feb 7, 2009

Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station and decide to follow him. At a strip club Paul cautiously decides to approach him but the chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him.

6.9

Little Caesar

Jan 25, 1931

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

5.3

Framed

Mar 16, 1930

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.

7.8

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Nov 9, 1932

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

7.0

Blood Money

Nov 17, 1933

The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.

6.2

City Streets

Apr 18, 1931

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

5.5

The Sin of Nora Moran

Dec 13, 1933

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.

6.5

The Story of Temple Drake

May 6, 1933

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

5.1

I Cover the Waterfront

May 19, 1933

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

6.8

The Little Giant

May 20, 1933

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

7.0

Manhattan Melodrama

May 4, 1934

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.