Body Fever or Super Cool is a 1969 American low-budget crime drama film, directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.[1] It stars Carolyn Brandt as a cat burglar and Bernard Fein as a down and out detective searching for her. Rotten Tomatoes mentions that in the film a "lackadaisical gumshoe is caught between a glamorous thief, a gang of ruthless hoodlums and a handful of vicious drug peddlers in this quirky crime drama".[2]
Steckler created a bit part for then destitute fellow director Coleman Francis. Francis died just a few years later in 1973.[3]
Cast
edit- Carolyn Brandt as Carrie Erskine
- Bernard Fein as Big Mack
- Gary Kent as Frankie Roberts
- Brett Pearson as Brett
- Herb Robins as Herbie
- Ray Dennis Steckler as Charles Smith
- Coleman Francis as Coley
- Dina Bryan as Stella
- Julie Conners as Shawn Call
- Brett Zeller as Carol Hollister
Reception
editVideo Watchdog notes that though Steckler's films had displayed a "steady decline" during this period, Body Fever was the exception.[4]
References
edit- ^ Lentz III, Harris M. (26 April 2007). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2006: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7864-5211-8.
- ^ "Body Fever". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ Warren, Bill; Thomas, Bill (16 November 2009). Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0.
- ^ Video Watchdog. Tim & Donna Lucas. 1994. p. 178.
External links
edit- Body Fever at IMDb
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