Ep 6 - Hot Stuff

Published: June 25, 2020, 11 a.m.

b'70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 6\\u2014HOT STUFF (1979)\\n \\nRobust funnyman Dom DeLuise mounts the director\\u2019s chair for the first\\u2014and last\\u2014time with HOT STUFF, a Miami-set crime farce wherein he co-stars with Jerry Reed and Suzanne Pleshette. Together, they play kooky cops who set up a phony fencing operation to bust an array of contraband-peddling oddballs. Oh, does it not work.\\n \\nWhat DOES work, however, is UW Cinematheque honcho JIM HEALY joining co-hosts Mike McPadden and Ben Reiser to take on HOT STUFF for a zesty, informative discussion that includes Sydney Lassick and David Carradine (as his prison bride) in SONNY BOY; the Gene Siskel Sneer of Disapproval, what else was playing in Summer \\u201979; and how Dom\\u2019s directorial debut rests at the heart of the Hal Needham/Burt Reynolds/Mel Brooks Venn diagram.'