Body Fever

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

1. 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.
2. "Body Fever". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
3. 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.
4. Video Watchdog. Tim & Donna Lucas. 1994. p. 178.

External links

• Body Fever at IMDb