The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
DIRECTOR: Douglas Jackson
STARS: Gordon Pinset (Blacula), Alexandra Stewart (Mickey One), Lawrence Dane (Rituals), Al Waxman (Spasms)
SYNOPSIS: Gordon Pinset is super sleazy as a hard-drinking, womanizing news reporter who accidentally films an escaped convict during his remote news segment. Doing a fluff piece on the weekend heatwave, and flirting with teen girls, Pinset and his crew catch a glimpse of wanted mob man Lawrence Dane. Dane asks Pinset to leave him out of the broadcast as he is a married man and needs some discretion. Pinset tells him don't worry, but Dane does worry. If his old mob boss finds him, he's a dead man. Before long he makes an offer to buy the footage. When Pinset realizes who he is… plans for blackmail begin. But Dane is no pushover, and intimidation, double-crosses, and murder follow. Nothing too explicit with sex or violence but the production values are above average and all the actors are solid in this forgotten, low key, Canadian drama.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
DIRECTOR: Douglas Jackson
STARS: Gordon Pinset (Blacula), Alexandra Stewart (Mickey One), Lawrence Dane (Rituals), Al Waxman (Spasms)
SYNOPSIS: Gordon Pinset is super sleazy as a hard-drinking, womanizing news reporter who accidentally films an escaped convict during his remote news segment. Doing a fluff piece on the weekend heatwave, and flirting with teen girls, Pinset and his crew catch a glimpse of wanted mob man Lawrence Dane. Dane asks Pinset to leave him out of the broadcast as he is a married man and needs some discretion. Pinset tells him don't worry, but Dane does worry. If his old mob boss finds him, he's a dead man. Before long he makes an offer to buy the footage. When Pinset realizes who he is… plans for blackmail begin. But Dane is no pushover, and intimidation, double-crosses, and murder follow. Nothing too explicit with sex or violence but the production values are above average and all the actors are solid in this forgotten, low key, Canadian drama.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
DIRECTOR: Douglas Jackson
STARS: Gordon Pinset (Blacula), Alexandra Stewart (Mickey One), Lawrence Dane (Rituals), Al Waxman (Spasms)
SYNOPSIS: Gordon Pinset is super sleazy as a hard-drinking, womanizing news reporter who accidentally films an escaped convict during his remote news segment. Doing a fluff piece on the weekend heatwave, and flirting with teen girls, Pinset and his crew catch a glimpse of wanted mob man Lawrence Dane. Dane asks Pinset to leave him out of the broadcast as he is a married man and needs some discretion. Pinset tells him don't worry, but Dane does worry. If his old mob boss finds him, he's a dead man. Before long he makes an offer to buy the footage. When Pinset realizes who he is… plans for blackmail begin. But Dane is no pushover, and intimidation, double-crosses, and murder follow. Nothing too explicit with sex or violence but the production values are above average and all the actors are solid in this forgotten, low key, Canadian drama.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R