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Heat Lightning (1934) is a pre-Code drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy. This film has the distinction of being one of the last films to slip by before The Hays Code crackdown and has some very feminist overtones.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The film follows a day in the life of two sisters, Olga (Aline MacMahon) and Myra (Ann Dvorak). Both work in an auto camp in the middle of the Californian desert. Olga is the older sister who has no problem getting down and dirty with “men’s” work —fixing up cars, being self-reliant, not wearing any dresses—and has seen enough of the world to know that it's not all that it’s cracked up to be. Myra, on the other hand, is young and naïve and dying to be somewhere exciting.As the desert day gets hotter, two men on the lam from a robbery come in called Gerry (Preston Foster) and Jeff (Lyle Talbott). It turns out Gerry and Olga have a shared past: Olga was a cabaret dancer in Tulsa, and Gerry was her abusive boyfriend. Another trio of characters come in to the picture: wealthy divorcees, Mrs. Tifton (Glenda Farrell) and Mrs. Ashton-Ashley (Ruth Donnelly), and their chauffeur, Frank (Frank McHugh). Throughout the day, Gerry and Olga have some sexual tension while he plans to steal from the wealthy women. Meanwhile, Myra wants to sneak out on a date with a man her sister disapproves of, and the divorcees have some wacky hijinks with their chauffeur. But at the end of the night, both sisters are disappointed with their choice in men.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })See The Petrified Forest for a similar setting. | |
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Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Olga lets a Mexican family stay outside during the night since they can’t pay for one of her shacks. Mrs. Ashton tells Olga that she doesn’t trust the Mexican family and wants her jewels somewhere safe. Ashton is considered nonsensical and bigoted for saying this. | |
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Coincidental Broadcast: Gerry just happens to turn on the radio to hear about the police apprehending the wrong man for his crime. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Olga has a tendency to scare off any man that comes near Myra, but it turns out both have very bad taste in men, so Olga’s instinct isn’t without foundations. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: There’s heavy doses of it between Olga and Gerry, but it’s never Played for Laughs in any shape or form. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed: Myra wants to go to a dance with Steve who ends up abusing her. Olga, on the other hand, refuses Gerry's advances but then falls for him once more only to be used by him. She promptly shoots him dead. | |
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