The Heatwave Lasted Four Days is a 1975 Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Douglas Jackson.
[2] 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.
[5] Other films in the series included Bernard Devlin's A Case of Eggs, Rudi Dorn's A Moving Experience, John Howe's A Star Is Lost!
and Michael Scott's The Winner (Albert la grenouille), although Heatwave was the only one of the five newer films that was relatively well received by critics or audiences.
[4] The film premiered on April 28, 1975, as an episode of the ABC late-night anthology Wide World of Entertainment.