Heat Lightning "Hardcover" while he is away

while he is away

is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley - complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines

dabbling in crime there

is arriving by boat from Mexico to be married

Heat Lightning "Hardcover" while he is awayIn a small roadside caf in the remote California desert a former dance hall girl will stop at nothing to save her younger sister from following the same path to a dead end life that she is on even if she must murder her former boyfriend, the gangster now making a play for her sister. Based on the play by Leon Abrams and George Abbott.