Underplayed Gems

The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1974)

The Heatwave Lasted Four Days poster
Directed by
Douglas Jackson
Genre
crime, drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A TV news cameraman in Montreal accidentally films a heroin deal. This pulls him into the city's criminal underworld.

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What happens

The Heatwave Lasted Four Days is a 1975 Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Douglas Jackson. The film stars Gordon Pinsent as Cliff Reynolds, a television news cameraman in Montreal who becomes drawn into the city's criminal underworld after witnessing a heroin deal while filming a news report. The cast also includes Lawrence Dane, Alexandra Stewart, Domini Blythe, Jon Granik, Al Waxman, and Walter Massey, as well as cameo appearances by real-life CFCF-TV journalists Andrew Marquis and Don McGowan as colleagues of Reynolds. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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