Heat Wave 1974 Movie

Readers tell us their favorite movies with lots of heat

Our picks, for the record, were "The African Queen," "Body Heat," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Do the Right Thing," "Dog Day Afternoon," "In the Heat of the Night," "Inherit the Wind," "Rear Window," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Summer of Sam," "12 Angry Men," "Woodstock" and "The Year of Living Dangerously."

Linda Hanson said we should add "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), since it includes that iconic scene in which Marilyn Monroe stands over a subway grate and lets a burst of air from a passing train blow up her pleated white skirt. "She was putting her underwear in the fridge to cool it," she reminded us.

Hanson also liked that scene from "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) in which Paul Newman and the other sweaty convicts enjoy watching a buxom farmer's daughter wash the car.

And, she said, what about "Sahara" (1943), in which Humphrey Bogart sweats it out inside a WWII tank with no water. Or "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), when Jimmy Stewart's plane crashes in the desert and everybody who survives gets severely dehydrated before finding a way out of there.

Good choices all.

Carroll Murray's favorite is "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987), starring Robin Williams as wartime radio deejay Adrian Cronauer. Murray included some Cronauer quotes relating to weather that we can't repeat in a family newspaper.

His second choice is one of my all-time favorites, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), in which Gregory Peck defends a black man wrongly accused of rape in a small Southern town.

A woman whose name I couldn't quite make out in a phone message suggested "Gone With the Wind" (1939), which isn't entirely set in a heat wave but has its moments, and "Cleopatra" (1963), which generated a lot of heat between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor — even though both were married to other people at the time.

Kevin Penrod, who says he still misses the Indian Hills Theatre, recalled seeing "Lawrence of Arabia" there — a perfect movie for that wide-screen experience. Peter O'Toole starred in director David Lean's 1962 epic set in the Arabian desert.

Penrod also shares my love of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), set in the Burmese jungle of WWII. It's another David Lean best-picture winner, racking up seven Oscars — including one for Alec Guinness as a British officer who leads the building of the bridge.

Rose Vodvarka of Lincoln said two Tennessee Williams movies on my list were not quite enough. She would add "This Property Is Condemned" (1966).

Heat Wave! (1974) - Jerry Jameson-Cinema of the World

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