Catch the Heat (1987)

Director:

Joel Silberg

Writer:

Stirling Silliphant (writer)

Release Date:

October 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Drug Dealer | Undercover Cop | Erotica | Female Nudity | Murder

Cast

Tiana Alexandra	...	Checkers Goldberg
David Dukes	...	Waldo Tarr
Rod Steiger	...	Jason Hannibal
Brian Thompson	...	Danny Boy
Jorge Martínez	...	Raul De Villa (as Jorge Martinez)
John Hancock	...	Ike
Brian Libby	...	Brody
Professor Toru Tanaka	...	Dozu
Jessica Schultz	...	Maria
Russell Clark	...	Reggie
Norman Erlich	...	Jose Calsado
Cecilia Maresca	...	Juanita
Jacques Arndt	...	Dr. Bleyer
Miguel Habud	...	Ramon (as Miguel Angel Habud)
John Dresden	...	San Francisco Cop

Also Known As:

Feel the Heat
Sentir la persecusión (Argentina)
Sin escape (Argentina)

Runtime:

Argentina:100 min | Brazil:88 min | USA:87 min | West Germany:84 min (video)

Country:

Argentina | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Cinecolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

West Germany:16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Company:

Negocios Cinematográficos S.A.

Quotes:

Waldo Tarr: Give me a name or I'll give you a vagina!

Soundtrack:

Captive In The Heat

How exactly do I catch the heat?

Tiana Alexandra plays kung-fu copper Checkers Goldberg. Yes, this is not a typo. Checkers freaking Goldberg. Despite being 100% Vietnamese she is given this goofy name (What, Shamus O'Reilly was too unbelievable?) and even goofier starring role as any hint of real talent is basically her knack for slow karate moves and looking good in a wet t-shirt (apparently bras are optional at this police department). Checkers and her partner Waldo, (David Dukes who tries really hard, no really he does!) are sent to investigate heroin dealers in Buenos Aires that have been shipping the smack back to Los Angeles. Turns out it's Rod Steiger with a toupee so bad it trumps any international crime the drug dealing might incur. Steiger's Jason Hannibal is also a talent scout and that's where Checkers becomes acquainted with him as.......Cinderella Poo! What is it with these names? Turns out Hannibal is smuggling the drugs into the U.S. by stuffing it into breast implants. Why they would send in a woman with sizable knockers in the first place is a mystery to me. With all the attention, rightly so, on boobs, you'd think you would get to see a pair every once in a while. You'd be wrong. This is like a Fred Olen Ray movie if Mr. Ray had become a Mormon. Not fun. Eventually Checkers kicks and chops her way through men three times her size all the while enduring every sexually charged innuendo by Waldo who was not aware of what a litigious society the work place would become in the nineties. A sideplot concerning Waldo's feelings for Checkers is clumsily heaped in to add another layer onto their partnership. The "heat" ain't coming from the sexual chemistry from these two that's for sure. A movie by boobs about boobs that show no boobs except for the boobs who watched this. Catch a nap instead.