John kani the grass is singing7/28/2023 ![]() ![]() But the heat, the dirt and the monotony of farm life unnerve her. Returning to his farm immediately after their marriage, the town-bred Mary (Miss Black) tries briefly to find the bright side of the life she's settled for. ![]() ![]() Shot on location in Zambia, ''Killing Heat,'' which opens today at Eastside Cinema, tells the story of a 30- year-old unmarried secretary who, more out of desperation than affection, marries Dick Turner (John Thaw), a farmer who is having difficulty living off the land in a rural area of southern African. '' KILLING HEAT,'' Michael Raeburn's adaptation of Doris Lessing's first novel, ''The Grass Is Singing,'' is a bleak, troubling film whose erratic leading performance by Karen Black throws this serious portrait of African colonial life dramatically askew. ![]()
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