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Catch the Heat (film)

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Catch the Heat, also known as Feel the Heat,[1] Sin escape and Narcotraficantes, is a 1987 Argentine-American action film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Stirling Silliphant. It stars Tiana Alexandra, David Dukes, Rod Steiger and Brian Thompson. It was also released with the alternative titles Sentir la persecución ("Feel the Chase") and Misión: Alto riesgo ("Mission: High Risk").

Synopsis

A police officer who is very skilled with martial arts (and has a technique of her own) disguises herself as a showgirl/dancer to infiltrate a South American drug ring, while at the same time she unwittingly strikes up a relationship with an undercover special agent who carries the same goal.

Cast

Production

It was filmed in Technicolor and shot over a year in three locations: Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Villa María ranch, which was created by renowned Argentine painter and architect Alejandro Bustillo, and located in Máximo Paz (Buenos Aires Province).

Release

The film first premiered in 1986 in Argentina, and then premiered on USA in October 1987. It was later shown on cable TV in 1993, under the title Sentir la persecución ("Feel the Chase").

Bibliography

  • A dictionary of Argentine Films (1930-1995) - Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). "Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995)". Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor (Corregidor Publishing House). pp. 536–537. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.
  • Hollywood in Don Torcuato. The Adventures of Roger Corman and Hector Olivera - Fevrier, Andrés (2020, Argentina). "Hollywood en Don Torcuato. Las aventuras de Roger Corman y Héctor Olivera". This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es.

References

  1. ^ Catch the Heat (1987) FilmAffinity
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