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You are here: Home / Medium Cool / Medium Cool – Heat Wave!

Medium Cool – Heat Wave!

by WaterGirl|  June 25, 20237:00 pm| 150 Comments

This post is in: Medium Cool, Popular Culture, Culture as a Hedge Against This Soul-Sucking Political Miasma We're Living In

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Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in.  We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.

Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered.  We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.

Heat Wave!

Since many of us around the country have been experiencing a heat wave, let’s talk about films where heat and summer and sweat play a big role in the film.

When I think of movies where it’s hot-hot-hot, I instantly think of Body Heat.  For songs, I immediately think Summer in the City.

For some reason, I also think of Atlantic City, and a scene with a female actor on a hot summer night, partially undressed, standing in front of a mirror or a window, squeezing a fresh lemon onto her skin.  (Something about seafood?)  Funny, I don’t remember much else about the movie except that I really liked it at the time.

I am also picturing a movie where some stocky fellow is yelling “Stella!” :-)  I also saw that one as a play – in the middle of August in a small un-air conditioned community theater.  Talk about making you feel like you are there!

Medium Cool – 

But first, a quick  announcement:

 Toward the end of July, we will begin a 2 or 3-part Medium Cool series on Josephine Tey.  I’ll share more details from Subaru Dianne soon, but I wanted to give you guys a heads up – in case anyone wants to read a book or two of hers as a refresher, or perhaps read something by Josephine Tey for the first time.

Okay, let’s talk heat and summer and sweat!  Funny, there must be tons of films where summer heat plays a big role and they are not hot in another way, but those aren’t the ones I thought of!

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  1. 1.

    AliceBlue

    June 25, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    The Long Hot Summer – Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.  ‘Nuff said.

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 25, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    Different medium, but there is this. And this. And finally this.

  3. 3.

    Roberto el oso

    June 25, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    Re Atlantic City — Susan Sarandon with the lemon and Burt Lancaster checking her out …

  4. 4.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 25, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    Garam Hawa (Hot Air) based on the Partition of India. It is a classic.

    Tamas (Darkness) another miniseries on the Partition is also good.

  5. 5.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    I seem to recall a lot of sweaty people in A Time To Kill.  I don’t remember much else about it.

  6. 6.

    oldgold

    June 25, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    The car wash scene in Cool Hand Luke.

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    Could we get a hint on one or two Tey titles to check out? I presume The Daughter of Time, but what else?

  8. 8.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Do the Right Thing takes place on a record hot day, and the heat seems to shorten everybody’s fuse. WE-LOVE Radio Rollcall.

  9. 9.

    Jackie

    June 25, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    This was summer in my teens:

    https://youtu.be/iokgq4I0OM8

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    I have always found it interesting that large parts of Out of the Past, the greatest film noir, and I will not be taking questions at this time, happen in the glare of Mexican sunlight and outdoorsy California/​Nevada.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @Roberto el oso: I thought it might have been Susan Sarandon but I didn’t want to look because her political beliefs so annoys me.

  12. 12.

    Jackie

    June 25, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    This still is summer to me:

    https://youtu.be/TGVMLMlIxjM

  13. 13.

    BellaPea

    June 25, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    Body Heat was hot, hot, hot. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner at their best. The scene where he smashes the window with the chair to get in to her…WHOA.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    @eclare: I was thinking it might have been a hot summer day when either Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino was robbing the bank in some famous movie whose name I have forgotten. :-)

  15. 15.

    Scout211

    June 25, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    Rear Window (1954)

    Rear Window original movie trailer

    A New York City heat wave served as a focal plot device in this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller. As his neighbors open their windows to let the breeze in, photographer L.B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) begins tracking their movements and aides in solving a murder.

  16. 16.

    Elarciel

    June 25, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @Steeplejack: A Shilling for Candles is good, but perhaps my favorite (other than The Daughter of Time, of course), is The Singing Sands.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    @Steeplejack: Let’s see if Subaru Dianne weighs in with some titles.  This pre-announcement was just to give folks a heads up about what is coming up – I’m not entirely sure that she has even decided on specific books or not.  We’ll see!

  18. 18.

    Bee Girl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm

     

    Cat On A Hot Tin Roof …Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in another humid southern summer.

  19. 19.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Dog Day Afternoon?  I don’t remember it being that hot, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 25, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon?

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    @prostratedragon: I may have done this wrong :-) perhaps I should have had us thinking about films set in the winter, with snow!

  22. 22.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    @Scout211:

    Perfect!  I knew I was missing something obvious.  The couple sleeping on the fire escape, everyone’s windows open, etc.

  23. 23.

    Bee Girl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    Laurence of Arabia…

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    @Elarciel:

    Thanks.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    @eclare: @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yes!  Dog Day Afternoon!  I think dog day is a reference to a hot day.

    (the google says I am correct

    edit:  All I could remember was “Attica!  Attica!” but I knew that wasn’t the name of the movie.

  26. 26.

    khead

    June 25, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    12 Angry Men

    Do the Right Thing

    Edit – Missed prostratedragon posted Do the Right Thing at #8.

  27. 27.

    Spanky

    June 25, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    How about a dry heat? Both Lawrence of Arabia and Flight of the Phoenix are plenty hot.  And sandy.

  28. 28.

    Delk

    June 25, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    Sunny Afternoon

  29. 29.

    James E Powell

    June 25, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    Back in the 90s, a friend & I went to see a restored 70mm of Lawrence of Arabia. At the intermission, we were both dying of thirst. Nothing is written!

    Narrator: Later on, we find out that some things, indeed, are written.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    @khead:  Love 12 Angry Men, had forgotten about the heat!  I bet that courthouse didn’t have air conditioning.

  31. 31.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    @Bee Girl:  ” it ain’t the heat”

    Yes it is.😉

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    @Delk: Excellent!

  33. 33.

    oatler

    June 25, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    “Bridge Over the River Kwai”. Man, the humidity…

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 25, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I’m putting together a proper annotated list, but in the meantime:

    The Daughter of Time

    The Franchise Affair

    Miss Pym Disposes

    Brat Farrar

  35. 35.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @James E Powell:

    Ooh!  Greed has the same effect with the ending.

  36. 36.

    Joseph Patrick Lurker

    June 25, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    In the Heat of the Night, Shawshank Redemption, Inherit the Wind, and Papillon.

    I couldn’t find it, but wasn’t there a thread on this same subject within the past 2 months?  It seems extremely familiar.

  37. 37.

    bjacques

    June 25, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    The Day The Earth Caught Fire (featuring a beatnik end of the world party)

    H. P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” segment of Night Gallery

    “August Heat”, a classic short story by W F Harvey. There are some narrations of it on YouTube.

  38. 38.

    cope

    June 25, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    @prostratedragon: When we lived in Central Florida, I used to say “it ain’t the heat, it’s the humanity”.

  39. 39.

    Roberto el oso

    June 25, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    @WaterGirl: understood :) …. On the Liev Schrieber project ‘Ray Donovan’ Jon Voight had a very prominent role and Susan Sarandon was on for a couple of seasons. I don’t think their characters ever had a scene together but I often have wondered what that must have been like, if they ran into one another … despite their separate nuttiness I expect they’re pretty professional on set.

  40. 40.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Back before I had a/c at home, I got some relief from The Abyss and The Big Blue, among others. Not winter, but very cool-looking.

  41. 41.

    Bee Girl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    @prostratedragon: Heh!

  42. 42.

    piratedan

    June 25, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    School’s Out seems kind of appropriate here in its use with Dazed and Confused.

    and this song hit me in my first summer of abandon….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbI5A5Lxvps

  43. 43.

    Roberto el oso

    June 25, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    Ridley Scott dwells rather obsessively on Sigourney Weaver’s sweat in the latter part of Alien.

  44. 44.

    Anonymous At Work

    June 25, 2023 at 7:39 pm

    43 comments and no one mentioned Touch of Evil?

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    Having completed the formal rites and rituals and duly received the official keys, I am now invested as the estate manager at Sighthound Hall for the next seven weeks. The mob has decamped on their extended vacation to greater London, Sicily and other parts unknown. I have moved in to live with Chipley von Chippendale, the resident (non-)sighthound and oversee things. My modest rooms in Threadkill Lane are only five miles away, so I’ll be backing and forthing a good bit, but this will be my base of operations for most of the summer.

    I’ve got my ThinkPad and other electronics set up, complete with clicky external keyboard, and I even did a session to see if I could plumb the depths of Apple TV. They cut the Xfinity cable cord a few weeks ago and are streaming everything now. I think they have a goodly selection of premium channels, but I need to explore that in greater detail.

    I am going to take some pictures and see if they might build to a post for “On the Road” or “Garden Chat.” I watched a robin take a very splashy bath in the dripping birdbath a while ago. That might even be good video.

  46. 46.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    @James E Powell:  I took my mother to see it during that run, at a properly-equipped theater since torn down (Same one where I saw The Abyss, come to think of it). It was terrific — and hot!

  47. 47.

    funlady75

    June 25, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    @AliceBlue: I so agree!

  48. 48.

    oldster

    June 25, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    Here’s a link to online copies of Josephine Tey’s “Inspector Grant” novels:

    https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Mackintosh%2C%20Elizabeth

    They’re great fun, and occasionally a bit more than that.

  49. 49.

    Bee Girl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    Biloxi Blues …”Africa hot”

  50. 50.

    oldgold

    June 25, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    From Body Heat:

    Matty:
    My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred. I don’t mind. It’s the engine or something.

    Ned:
    Maybe you need a tune up.

    Matty:
    Don’t tell me. You have just the right tool.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Just wanted one or two to start with. Daughter of Time it is!

  52. 52.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 7:44 pm

    @cope:  That is it.

  53. 53.

    Evap

    June 25, 2023 at 7:44 pm

    Josephine Tey!  I believe I’ve read all of her books.  Brat Farrer  is one of my all time favorite books

  54. 54.

    Bee Girl

    June 25, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    @WaterGirl: They couldn’t get the jury room’s little oscillating fan to work until it was getting dark and somebody turned on the lights…fan was on the same switch. Such a good movie.

  55. 55.

    Suburban Mom

    June 25, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    @WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon

  56. 56.

    lgerard

    June 25, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    BBC radio dramatizations of Josephine Tey

     

    https://archive.org/details/JTeyBBCr4

  57. 57.

    H.E.Wolf

    June 25, 2023 at 7:47 pm

    The African Queen, for sure.

    The Year of Living Dangerously? (I’ve only seen it once, and it was ages ago.)

    In both cases, two kinds of heat. :)

  58. 58.

    hueyplong

    June 25, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    @eclare: Nice call on Greed.  Suspected the others would be mentioned

    ETA:  Has anyone mentioned Apocalypse Now?

  59. 59.

    Almost Retired

    June 25, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    A truly not-at-all good and justifiably forgotten movie called Frogs.

    It takes place on a hot and humid southern island owned (IIRC) by a reclusive billionaire played by Ray Milland who didn’t give a shit about the environment.  All sorts of critters with a sense of environmental grievance killed off the Island’s visitors one by one (death by alligator, death by leeches, death by some sort of lizard).

    It culminated in Ray Milland being “frogged” to death in his wheelchair (it wasn’t clear how the frog swarm killed him).  Everyone sweated a lot before their death by angry swamp creatures.

    It was ridiculous and comically preachy about the environment.  But it nevertheless scared my 4th Grade self totally shitless about hot and humid subtropical states.  I literally cried in fear when my parents announced they were taking us to Disney World.

    I was right to be scared of Florida but for the wrong reasons.  I would totally watch a Frogs remake set in The Villages.

  60. 60.

    moonbat

    June 25, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    The scene of Susan Sarandon rubbing a lemon over herself was not nearly as erotic as Burt Lancaster DESCRIBING her nightly ritual to her later in the film. The reason for the lemons was that she worked in a raw shellfish bar in one of the casinos and she was trying to get the fish smell off her skin. That movie also had a wonderful scene of Lancaster reminiscing aloud about “Flat-foot floozie with the Floy-Floy” with a straight face. Some of his later films were just perfect.

    My favorite line from Body Heat belongs to Kathleen Turner: “You’re not too bright. I like that in a man.” lol

  61. 61.

    evodevo

    June 25, 2023 at 7:55 pm

    Delores Purdy cooling herself off in front of the fridge in In the Heat of the Night… Spend a summer in AL in 1969 – I thought KY was humid…got nuttin’ on AL..

  62. 62.

    funlady75

    June 25, 2023 at 7:55 pm

    I am a TCM junkie —- How about James Cagney in White Heat!

  63. 63.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 7:55 pm

    @hueyplong:

    Apocalypse Now, also perfect, from the opening ceiling fan scene to the end.

    Which reminds me, how about Good Morning Vietnam?

  64. 64.

    Glidwrith

    June 25, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    @BellaPea: Some years ago, I was suffering through a Chicago summer with no A/C. The local radio station had a contest to name the movie with the following quote:

    ”I don’t know, but I’ll tell ya, you better know what you’re doing.”

    I recognized it and won $50. I think the station was rather disappointed as I was the first caller.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm

    @Almost Retired: That sounds crazy, are you sure you’re not making that up? :-)

  66. 66.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm

    “You’re not too bright. I like that in a man.”
    And she was so, so right.

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    @prostratedragon: Right that he wasn’t too bright?  Or right that not being too bright is a good quality in a man?

  68. 68.

    zhena gogolia

    June 25, 2023 at 8:02 pm

    @WaterGirl: yeah she shucks  clams so she has to use the lemon to get the smell of the clams off her it’s definitely Sarandon

  69. 69.

    delphinium

    June 25, 2023 at 8:04 pm

    Stand by Me and Jaws for some PG-rated heat/sweat.

  70. 70.

    zhena gogolia

    June 25, 2023 at 8:07 pm

    Wind across the Everglades?

  71. 71.

    Almost Retired

    June 25, 2023 at 8:07 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I am sure that the studio executive who greenlighted Frogs wishes I were making it up.

  72. 72.

    oldster

    June 25, 2023 at 8:07 pm

    @prostratedragon:

    It’s a great line, but the follow-ups are even funnier:

    “What else do you like? Lazy? Ugly? Horny? I got ’em all.”

    “You don’t look *lazy*.”

    Hurt’s character is *so* out of his league, and out of his depth.

  73. 73.

    moonbat

    June 25, 2023 at 8:08 pm

    Paul Newman was in a lot of hot and sweaty movies. The Long, Hot Summer, a William Faulkner southern special, with Joanne Woodward. They spark off each other.

    My favorite hot/hawt movie with him would have to be Hombre, though. When the baddie played by the ultimate baddie, Richard Boone, and his Mexican compadre threaten the life of his racist, white, Karen hostage, John Russell (Newman) declares without missing a beat, “She’s nothing to me.” Zing!

    Elmore Leonard wrote the story so it is as good as it gets.

  74. 74.

    hueyplong

    June 25, 2023 at 8:11 pm

    The weather seems kind of warm in my favorite western, Once Upon a Time in the West.

    Both the opening scene and Fonda’s first scene are memorable.

  75. 75.

    Bee Girls

    June 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    The Seven Year Itch. The

  76. 76.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    Speaking of Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone, with Michael Douglas, has some sweaty and steamy jungle scenes.

  77. 77.

    hueyplong

    June 25, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    It’s a cheap shot, but you could include the opening sequence in The Big Sleep, set in an orchid greenhouse, as Bogart gets info on his new case while sweating profusely and drinking brandy.

  78. 78.

    West of the Rockies

    June 25, 2023 at 8:18 pm

    It’s not great cinema,  but the fun, steamy Summer Lovers with a young Daryl Hannah and Peter Gallagher comes to mind.  Santorini and sunshine.

  79. 79.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    June 25, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    @Steeplejack: The Singing Sands (her last book which was published posthumously), To Love and be Wise, and The Franchise Affair all include her detective Alan Grant.  Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes are stand alone. These are my favorites, and there are a couple more with Grant. If I had to pick two besides DoT, I’d go with The Singing Sands and Brat Farrar, with the others I listed close behind.

    In the discussion,  i really want to have someone explain the details of how the murder was done in Brat Farrar, since Tey doesn’t really explain and I haven’t figured it out!

  80. 80.

    Yutsano

    June 25, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    Moving to television…

    A classic Twilight Zone episode. You can’t get much hotter than the Earth falling into the sun!

  81. 81.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    June 25, 2023 at 8:22 pm

    Haven’t seen it and the source of the heat is artificial so maybe it doesn’t qualify, but from the trailers it looks like the entire plot of the new film Inside is “Willem Dafoe is cooking to death”.

    So many images in my brain of people in deserts from various movies … how about Flight of the Phoenix?

    (I just learned there was a 2004 remake with Dennis Quaid but I’m talking about the 1965 original with Jimmy Stewart)

  82. 82.

    UncleEbeneezer

    June 25, 2023 at 8:23 pm

    Point Break

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (other than the Nepal bar shoot out the rest is all in jungle or desert)

    Every movie about the Vietnam War

  83. 83.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    June 25, 2023 at 8:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon with Pacino.

  84. 84.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    June 25, 2023 at 8:24 pm

    @Elarciel: Ah ha, another vote for The Singing Sands :-)

  85. 85.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    June 25, 2023 at 8:27 pm

    Anybody mention The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? I’m thinking specifically of two scenes where one character drags another across the desert without water. Clint Eastwood is the dragger in one, and the draggee in another.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    @oldster:

    I usually like Faded Page, but I took a look at The Daughter of Time there and have to say “Ugh!” on the formatting—business-letter block paragraphs with double spacing in between. For fiction you want indented paragraphs, no extra spacing in between. At least if you care about such things. Which, okay, not everybody does.

    I’ll keep looking, but I did find a nicely formatted Kindle edition (based on the preview) for 99 cents at Amazon.

  87. 87.

    Layer8Problem

    June 25, 2023 at 8:34 pm

    The opening scene in Oscar’s apartment in The Odd Couple movie. Five sweaty men awaiting a sixth in a New York City apartment with a broken air conditioner in the summer playing poker.  The Pigeon sisters later describing how they cope without an air conditioner by sitting naked in front of the open refrigerator.  Oscar chasing Felix onto the building’s roof where they argue with the Hudson behind them covered in that hot, humid summer haze.

  88. 88.

    hilts

    June 25, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    92 in the Shade

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 8:39 pm

    @Almost Retired: Surely that fine film won some awards!  No?

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 8:41 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: As I always say on Medium Cool, this is Balloon Juice, the rules are fluid :-)

  91. 91.

    kalakal

    June 25, 2023 at 8:41 pm

    Beau Geste, Sands of the Kalahari and very big on sweaty deserts Ice Cold in Alex. 

    Sweaty jungles Apocalypse Now, The Emerald Forest, and The Wages of Fear

    There’s quite a few SF films eg Total Recall 

    and a remake of Lifeboat called Lifepod spring to mind

  92. 92.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 8:43 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    …one character drags another across the desert without water. Clint Eastwood is the dragger in one, and the draggee in another.

    There were a lot of westerns, like Bonanza and others, where the main characters were dragging themselves across the desert, with sand on their dry lips…  will that make it to safety????  :-)

  93. 93.

    kalakal

    June 25, 2023 at 8:44 pm

    Forgot, The African Queen – Bogart looks like an ambulant puddle throughout

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 25, 2023 at 8:47 pm

    Die Hard With A Vengeance!

    Opening scene

  95. 95.

    stinger

    June 25, 2023 at 8:49 pm

    The Midnight Sun (episode of The Twilight Zone TV series) ETA: Yutsano beat me to it.
    Thelma and Louise
    Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring​

  96. 96.

    Scuffletuffle

    June 25, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    A Summer Place

  97. 97.

    kalakal

    June 25, 2023 at 8:54 pm

    The epic other epics call sir

    Ben-HimHur 

    also Spartacus, really just about every thongs and sandals movie

  98. 98.

    lowtechcyclist

    June 25, 2023 at 8:57 pm

    A couple of song references:

    The Eagles, “Hotel California“:

    How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
    Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
    …

    Fall Out Boy, “Uma Thurman“:

    The stench, the stench, of summer sex

  99. 99.

    geg6

    June 25, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    @BellaPea:

    Sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 9:06 pm

    Okay, before all the elderly shut-ins head to bed and Balloon Juice implodes for the night, I have an Apple TV question:

    I have pretty much figured everything out except for the command to dismiss or get rid of multiple open apps or tabs or whatever behind the scenes. I tried to look at CBS or something and got told that I had exceeded the limit of open [whatevers]. I remember the brother-in-law showing me that for about five seconds, but I can’t remember how to do it. Apparently they and the kids just open apps with abandon and never close them until forced to. [shudder] Let me know if anyone knows what I’m talking about.

  101. 101.

    p.a.

    June 25, 2023 at 9:10 pm

    Twilight Zone The Lonely

     

    The first of many The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes (including I Shot an Arrow into the Air (1960), A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (1961) and The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)) to be filmed on location in Death Valley. Unprepared for the terrible conditions they would face, the crew suffered extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion and director of photography George T. Clemens even collapsed, falling from a camera crane while filming continued.

    – IMDB

  102. 102.

    Roberto el oso

    June 25, 2023 at 9:11 pm

    @moonbat: oh, yes, good call on Hombre!  Still one of the great, inadvertently amusing openings, when the Apaches are catching horses and you get a close-up of Paul Newman’s blue eyes.

  103. 103.

    West of the Rockies

    June 25, 2023 at 9:11 pm

    @Almost Retired:

    Frogs also featured a young Sam Elliott.

  104. 104.

    Geminid

    June 25, 2023 at 9:14 pm

    Louis L’Amour wrote a gazillion westerns, and a dozen or so are set in the deserts of the Southwest. A common plot element is for the protagonist to be ambushed in the desert and left for dead, 60 miles from the nearest settlement and without a horse. First they find shade and rest, because walking in the sun means certain death. When night comes they pop a pebble in their mouth to relieve the dryness and trudge off in search of a spring.

    Being Louis L’Amour heros, they always find one. It’s usually with the aid of the desert’s creatures, too. Trying to go another mile at sunrise, a man will hear a bee fly by and follow it to the seep hidden in the rocks above. Another guy collapses while searching for a rumored spring, and wakes up to the sound of a toad croaking next to his little pool.

    Another man hears scuffling sounds in the night and finds a porcupine couple digging a hole. They smell water, but they hurry off when the man approaches. He  finishes the hole, drinks his fill and then courteously camps a hundred yards off so the shy porcupines can get their water.

    I love that stuff.

  105. 105.

    Heidi Mom

    June 25, 2023 at 9:15 pm

    Gettysburg (like the actual event) takes place at the beginning of July in south-central PA.  July in that area (where I live) is often hot and humid.  At one point Sgt. Kilrain urges Col. Chamberlain to “ride the damn horse” because he’s already been down with the heat.

  106. 106.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 9:21 pm

    eclare@63: Speaking of fans, Angel Heart, the New Orleans sequence. Actually the earlier parts are pretty winter-chilly.

  107. 107.

    oatler

    June 25, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    !776 the movie. All through it the Founding Fathers keep yelling “it’s so damned hot!”

  108. 108.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 9:29 pm

    @WaterGirl:  The former. Noirs frequently rely on dim bulbs, as horror films often do. Body Heat‘s a good example; another is Angel Face.

    ETA I personally prefer some smarts.

  109. 109.

    prostratedragon

    June 25, 2023 at 9:36 pm

    @Yutsano:  Was going to enter that one when I had to stop and do something. One of my favorites from that show, and insipred a good movie called Last Night.

  110. 110.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 9:38 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I have still never seen any Die Hard movie.  Watching the opening scene now.

    edit: Explosion!   I suspect I’m not giving anything away there!

  111. 111.

    frosty

    June 25, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    @Geminid: Louis L’Amour: “I’ve been all over the West. When I write about a spring the water’s there and it’s good to drink.”

    Just standard Western plots, some better than standard characters, but  great settings.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 9:41 pm

    @Steeplejack: My Apple TV is so old that it can’t do apps! :-)

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 9:43 pm

    @prostratedragon: Smart is sexy.

  114. 114.

    phein64

    June 25, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Dune . . . Arrakis . . . Desert Planet:   The recent movie is, well, decent

    or

    Doon . . . Arruckus . . . Dessert Planet

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Well, channels, or whatever you call them. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc., and all the minor ones.

  116. 116.

    Timill

    June 25, 2023 at 9:52 pm

    Kurt Weill, Street Scene: “Ain’t it Awful, the Heat”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBXvD8aGBE

  117. 117.

    WaterGirl

    June 25, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    @Steeplejack: No, I was serious.  At some point Apple TV started using apps that you had to install, rather than just channels.

    So I think you probably do have a ton of apps open; I just can’t help because I have an older version

    edit: I imagine you already googled, but this is what I found:

    Closing apps on Apple TV

    Double-click the Home button.

    Swipe left or right to find the app you want to close.

    Swipe up to close the app.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 9:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks. Yeah, I did get on the Google after I thought of a plausible search phrase, and I think I found the solution, although I haven’t tried it yet. Basically I was doing “press and hold” on a button and should have been doing “double click.” I’ll see if that works later. Too tired and wound up to watch anything now. Plus I’d actually have to choose something, unlike my usual strategy of “what’s the least obnoxious thing on Cox Cable now?” What a world of adventure awaits me!

    ETA: And thanks for taking the time to pursue this. Somebody cares! 😿

  119. 119.

    geg6

    June 25, 2023 at 10:08 pm

    Lonesome Dove.  Lotsa sweat.

  120. 120.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 10:21 pm

    Totally spaced out it was Sunday. Just now going back to read the prodigious amount of comments.

  121. 121.

    frosty

    June 25, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    @Steeplejack:Plus I’d actually have to choose something, unlike my usual strategy of “what’s the least obnoxious thing on Cox Cable now?”

    This is one of the subtle flaws of cutting cable. I don’t watch any TV any more. Used to watch John Oliver every Sunday night. If I can watch it on demand any time?? I have other things to do. Like this f’rinstance!

    Plus navigating Prime vs Hulu vs Apple vs Disney+ … hell with it.

  122. 122.

    Jackie

    June 25, 2023 at 10:26 pm

    Any baseball movie! The public swimming pool/drowning/mouth to mouth CPR scene in The Sandlot still makes me laugh.

    https://youtu.be/1jmKpjqDrPs

  123. 123.

    TiredOfIiAll

    June 25, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    The Seven Year Itch and Against All Odds (remake of Out of the Past)

  124. 124.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 10:31 pm

    @WaterGirl

    ::cough:: Roku ::cough::

  125. 125.

    Elizabelle

    June 25, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I’ve only seen the first Die Hard, and years after it was released, but it is superb.  Because:  Alan Rickman is the urbane terrorist in charge.  Amazing performance.

    Jeremy Irons, I believe, starred in the second in the series.

    Can’t speak for any of the others, but I think you would like the first.

  126. 126.

    Elizabelle

    June 25, 2023 at 10:47 pm

    The opening scenes of Baghdad Cafe.  Desert scenes, bathed in a kind of neon yellow, if memory serves.

    Jack Palance, CCH Pounder.  Time to watch it again.

  127. 127.

    MomSense

    June 25, 2023 at 10:55 pm

    Marilyn Monroe performing

    We’re having a heat wave
    A tropical tropical heat wave

    There’s no business like snow business.

  128. 128.

    Narya

    June 25, 2023 at 10:59 pm

    Another vote for Long Hot Summer—love that movie.

  129. 129.

    eclare

    June 25, 2023 at 10:59 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Maybe I was having a bad day, but I only lasted about ten minutes into Die Hard.  My nerves were frayed, and I turned it off.

  130. 130.

    Elizabelle

    June 25, 2023 at 11:02 pm

    @eclare:  It is not a soothing film.

  131. 131.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    See no one thought to mention Patricia Neal checking out Gary Cooper’s big — um — drill in The Fountainhead.

    Not normally a sweatfest but this version of a number from The Pirates of Penzance ends up with Pirate King Jon English coated in a sheen of moisture.

    A few more: Raging Bull, The Set-up, Captain Blood, Chariots of Fire, Breaking Away.

  132. 132.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    Italics fail above. Apologies. Was typing while on the phone with mom in NY.

    @Elizabelle

    It’s on Prime at the moment. No “h” though; Bagdad Cafe should you do a search for it.

  133. 133.

    Roberto el oso

    June 25, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia …. very sweaty

  134. 134.

    MichiganderGail

    June 25, 2023 at 11:11 pm

    Father Goose.  Sweaty and scraggly Cary Grant.

  135. 135.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    One more just sprang to mind: 3 Godfathers.

  136. 136.

    Elizabelle

    June 25, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    @NotMax:  Thanks!  Bagdad Cafe opened a DC film festival the year it was released. (1987??)  I am not sure I have seen it since.

    Will watch it on Prime.

  137. 137.

    Steeplejack

    June 25, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    @frosty:

    I may have talked about it here before, but I have gotten into a “listening to radio” mode vs. “playing a CD” mode. In the former, you have “live” choices available (on Cox Cable, for me), and you pick one. In the latter, you have a vast array of choices, but you have to explicitly select one and then sort of feel obligated to watch it. If I’m channel-surfing I can just bop around if something doesn’t hold my interest. Not optimal, but that’s the way it is.

    I do occasionally have “appointment viewing” where I specifically choose and watch something, but it can be hard in our multitasking, short-attention-span world.

  138. 138.

    thruppence

    June 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    If you have The Criterion Collection, they’re currently running a collection of erotic thrillers – I think Body Heat is one of them

  139. 139.

    NotMax

    June 25, 2023 at 11:40 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Sad day in this household late last year when Roku updated their software somewhat and the Accuradio channel was suddenly incompatible with it.

    However, can still listen free to a veritable cornucopia of music selections at Accuradio online. Also a free Accuradio app in (AFAIK) both the Google Play and Apple stores.

  140. 140.

    Pennsylvanian

    June 25, 2023 at 11:47 pm

    If it hasn’t been offered, Angelheart.

    Just typing that made me break a sweat.

  141. 141.

    billcinsd

    June 25, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    I am going to request you squeal like a pig as I put Deliverance into the mix

  142. 142.

    chrisanthemama

    June 25, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    Coen Bros’ “Barton Fink”.  John Turturro with writers’ block in a stifling hotel room.  Shenanigans (including a dead woman in his bed he has no idea about) ensue.

  143. 143.

    kalakal

    June 25, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    @NotMax: Ah, Captain Blood now there is a movie

  144. 144.

    Steeplejack

    June 26, 2023 at 12:04 am

    @NotMax:

    Thanks. Will check it out.

  145. 145.

    oldgold

    June 26, 2023 at 12:38 am

  146. 146.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 26, 2023 at 6:42 am

    @oatler: ​
      Will somebody open up a window!

  147. 147.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 26, 2023 at 6:44 am

    Frosty the Snowman

    the greenhouse melts Frosty

  148. 148.

    WaterGirl

    June 26, 2023 at 8:47 am

    @MichiganderGail: Loved Father Goose!  So much!  Thanks for the reminder.

  149. 149.

    Miss Bianca

    June 26, 2023 at 11:20 am

    @Almost Retired: Wasn’t Sam Elliott in Frogs? I never saw it, but I totally remember seeing newspaper ads for it when I was a kid that featured a human arm sticking out of a frog’s mouth. Freaked me the fuck out.

  150. 150.

    Nancy

    June 27, 2023 at 12:30 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I liked the movie. It was Atlantic City. Something about someone finding someone’s cocaine and some of the characters survived the fallout.

    Susan Sarandon may have been the big name in the movie, but Burt Lancaster was the star. S’s character worked at a fish stand in Atlantic City and the lemon was supposed to remove the scent of fish. She wanted a breeze so the window was open. Burt looked.

    Burt played an aging gangster hanger-on. He had a moment with Susan  and then reality landed on him with a crash.

    He played the moment out, rolled with the crash, and then he was a believable hero.

    It was hot where the characters could afford to live.  Worth watching for Burt and other supporting actors.

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