The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1974)

Directed by

Douglas Jackson

Genre

crime, drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

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

suspensefulgrittytensenoirishurbanparanoidatmospheric

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)

Trailer

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