The 70s made disaster movies about WEATHER and somehow it's absolutely unhinged.
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Practical Effects
Genuinely convincing heat misery without modern effects.
Acting
Bonnie Bedelia sells third-trimester exhaustion beautifully.
Director
Jerry Jameson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during a real 1974 heatwave, making it accidentally topical disaster programming. Networks loved exploiting current weather events.
Jerry Jameson directed THREE disaster TV movies in two years—this, Hurricane, and Terror on the 40th Floor. The man had a niche and he SPRINTED with it.
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