Chain Lightning - DVD

The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive -- two bejeweled divorcees and Olga's old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that

Richard Trevelyan (Richard Todd) was convicted of murdering his wife, given an 11th-hour Death Row reprieve and freed under unusual circumstances after retrial. But his past does not matter to Shelley Carnes (Ruth Roman), an actress visiting the Texas ranchland that Richard calls home. She's fallen in love with him. But after she becomes the second Mrs. Trevelyan, Shelley is beset by doubts and fear. The director and screenwriter of Bet

Whenever film icons Joan Crawford and Clark Gable co-starred in a film, there was always something to keep these two made-for-each-others apart. They might be from opposite sides of the tracks or opposite sides of the law and sometimes just being the opposite sex was enough to draw them together and drive them apart. But the impediment was often another man. In Chained, it's Crawford's older lover (Otto Kruger), who gets the divorce Cra