TOP 10 SWELTERING HEAT
MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!

August 16, 2002

It's August, and all through the country, it's hot, hot, hot. Really hot. Unbearably hot! And next Friday I get to broadcast from Baja, California, where I'll be helping to build a house ("fort" would be more like it). I can hardly wait. And don't think that Hollywood hasn't noticed the weather. There are more than enough sweltering heat movies to make up a fine list, and here are the Top 10!!

DVD VHS	10.	In the Heat of the Night (1967):

DVD VHS	9.	Do The Right Thing (1989):

DVD VHS	8	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958):

DVD VHS	7	Rear Window (1954):

DVD VHS	6	Lawrence of Arabia (1962):

DVD VHS	5	12 Angry Men (1957):

DVD VHS	4	Cool Hand Luke(1967):

VHS	3	The Hill (1965)

DVD VHS	2	Body Heat (1981):

DVD VHS	1	The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

1 degree short of boiling:

=	Cujo (1983)	DVD	VHS
=	A Far Off Place (1993)		VHS
=	The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)		VHS
=	High Plains Drifter (1972)	DVD	VHS
=	Lion of the Desert (1980)	DVD	VHS
=	The Naked Prey (1966)		VHS
=	Pitch Black (2000)	DVD	VHS
=	Soylent Green (1973)		VHS
=	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)	DVD	VHS
=	The Year of Living Dangerously (1983): Mr. Hewitt's choice for No. 1.	DVD	VHS