SPOILER ALERT This is one of the last films that came out of Warhol's Factory, although Warhol at this point had nothing to do with it. Heat has Joe Dallesandro playing Joey Davis, (ex-child-star from a t.v. show called Mousetime U.S.A, and a western show called The Big Ranch). In the beginning of the film we find Joe walking around the grounds of an old studio in Hollywood that has been torn down. Looking around lost, Joey finally makes his way to a sleazy Hotel with a very hideous looking Landlady, who insists that, things are rough in L.A but not here. The hotel is filled with weird characters, one's that you come to expect in a Morrissey movie. The brothers that that reside there have an act around town, they do a little singing, then dancing, and then some sex on stage. One of the brothers, (Eric Emerson) wears a girls nightie. Jessie, (Andrea Feldman) plays The daughter of Sally, (Sylvia Miles), A fading Movie star who's reduced to doing game shows, But insists she's "semi-retired". Jessie lives in the Hotel with her baby, and lesbian lover, who occasionally burns her with cigarette butts. The Obese landlady (Pat Ast), Has sex with Joe For "reduced rent", but Joe doesn't mind though he just wants to get the record contract, but is being screwed by the producer. Joe meets Sally when he's visiting with Jessie, and they remember each other from a T.v. appearance they did together years ago on The BIG RANCH. Joe and Sally hit it off, despite the age difference. Joe moves into her Huge mansion, liking the posh lifestyle, also thinking that Sally can be useful in getting him some acting jobs. Sally appreciates Joe's company, because he represents something that she used to be, she longs for the youth, beauty, of her yesteryear, making her painfully attached to Joe. Andrea leaves her Lesbian lover, and moves into the mansion with them, not because she's attracted to Joe, but just to try and get in the way of them. She freely admits to Joe that she only likes her Mom for her money anyway. Sally manages to get a movie producer to meet With Joe, but is turned down saying that they are looking for a "Elliot Hoffman" type. The Movie ends with Joe leaves Sally to move back into the hotel. But Sally won't have it and in a tragicomic ending Sally rushes over to the hotel to kill Joe but the Gun jams and she throws it into the pool, running off screaming. Heat was Filmed in L.A. in the summer of 1971, over a two week period, for a budget of $50,000. The narrative structure was the best to come out of the factory yet, but the scenes where still improvised a little nonetheless. Paul Morrissey and John Hallowell, wrote the treatment and it went from there. The movie opened to good reviews and was shown at Cannes, and Venice film Festivals.
