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Fuzz
First Published: 1968
192 pages
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About the Movie
On the cover of the paperback edition of Ed McBain´s Fuzz that was created as a tie-in for the 1972 film version, caricatures of the film´s stars, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds, capture the spirit of the times and the film itself.
Welch seems to be exploding into a full run, with big hair and wearing a tight, revealing outfit, and Reynolds reclines in his famous centerfold pose from the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine, while behind them an assortment of madcap character burst out of the door to the 87th Precinct. The film, directed by Richard Colla, has a screenplay by Evan Hunter (the writer behind the pseudonym Ed McBain), and it seems designed to capture the same surreal hilarity Robert Altman´s war comedy M*A*S*H had caught a couple of years earlier.
Reynolds plays McBain´s venerable hero Steve Carella in Fuzz, which transplants the story to Boston from the author´s fictionalized New York. The M*A*S*H connection is heightened by the presence of Tom Skerritt as Det. Bert King (Skerritt appeared in the Altman film), and the cast includes Jack Weston as Det. Meyer and James McEachin and Steve Ihnat as other members of the squad, as well as Raquel Welch, then at the height of her stardom. The villain known as The Deaf Man -- who appears in several 87th Precinct mystery novels -- is played by Oscar winner Yul Brynner.
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