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
- 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
Video Watchdog notes that though Steckler's films had displayed a "steady decline" during this period, Body Fever was the exception.4
References
References
- Lentz III, Harris M. (April 26, 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 March 22, 2017.
- Warren, Bill; Thomas, Bill (November 16, 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.