Catch the Heat
Two American cops travel to Argentina, and one of them goes undercover to infiltrate an international drug ring, while the other coordinates with the local authorities to bring the illegal organization down.
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"My review was written in May 1987 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening. "Feel the Heat" is an unabashed action showcase for oriental actress Tiana Alexandra, wife of film's scripter Stirling Silliphant. Previously seen in TWE's exercise video the "Karatix", Alexandra is a real looker, solid martial arts practitioner and the only reason to sit through this weak programmer. With apologies to Whoopi, Alexadra stars as Checkers Goldberg, a government narcotics agent working for David Dukes, who is sent undercover to Buenos Aires to infiltrate Rod Steiger&ap..."
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Rod Steiger talked about this film in his Guardian Lecture interview in London in 1992, which can be heard on the blu ray of The Pawnbroker (1964). Steiger was suffering from clinical depression in the 1980s and couldn't get any work. Steiger's agent got him this film and Steiger said he accepted it as a way of seeing if he "could still walk and talk...to see if I was still alive, if I could feel anything" as his depression left him suicidal and literally unable to function.
📖 Synopsis
Two American cops travel to Argentina, and one of them goes undercover to infiltrate an international drug ring, while the other coordinates with the local authorities to bring the illegal organization down.