Beverly Hills Cop - I'll definitely solve this case

Movie
German title	Beverly Hills Cop - I'll definitely solve this case
Original title	Beverly Hills Cop
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1984
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Martin Brest
script	Danilo Bach , ; Daniel Petrie Jr.
production	Don Simpson , ; Jerry Bruckheimer
music	Harold Faltermeyer
camera	Bruce Surtees
cut	Arthur Coburn , ; Billy Weber
occupation
	Eddie Murphy : Det. Axel Foley; Judge Reinhold : Det. William "Billy" Rosewood; John Ashton : Det. Sgt. John Taggart; Lisa Eilbacher : Jeannette "Jenny" Summers; Ronny Cox : Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil; Steven Berkoff : Victor Maitland; James Russo : Mikey Tandino; Jonathan Banks : Zack (Maitland's Right Hand); Stephen Elliot : Police Chief Hubbard; Gilbert R. Hill : Insp. Douglas Todd; Art Kimbro : Det. Foster; Joel Bailey : Det. McCabe; Bronson Pinchot : Serge; Paul Reiser : Det. Jeffrey Friedman; Damon Wayans : banana waiter;
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chronology
	Successor → ; Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop - I lös' the event definitely is an American action comedy by director Martin Brest from the year 1984 . The film is a co-production by Paramount Pictures and Eddie Murphy Productions and was released in US cinemas on December 5, 1984 and in West German cinemas on April 3, 1985. In the GDR , the premiere took place in 1987. The film is considered a classic of the 1980s and it was followed by two sequels in 1987 and 1994.

action

Axel Foley is cop in Detroit and notorious for his unconventional methods of investigation. The film begins with Axel going undercover and single-handedly trying to sell a truck full of cigarettes with shady origins to two crooks. Axel's mission ends with one of the “customers” stealing the truck, being followed by the police, devastating the suburbs of Detroit and then being able to flee on foot.

After a “personal interview” with his angry boss, Inspector Todd, Axel drives home. There he notices that his apartment door is open. Suspecting a burglar, Axel storms into his apartment with his gun drawn, but only his old friend Mikey is sitting at the kitchen table and has helped himself from Axel's refrigerator. After serving a sentence, Mikey found work at the art dealer Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills and has come to Detroit to visit Axel after a long time. To his astonishment, Mikey carries a considerable amount of German bonds with him. However, the meeting is short-lived: Foley is knocked down by two hired killers from an ambush in front of his own door. Mikey too, only to be executed by two headshots by the killer Zack. This fact immediately makes it clear to Inspector Todd that the unknown perpetrators must be professional killers, otherwise Foley would not have survived.

Although Todd forbids him to touch this case, Axel takes a vacation and travels to Beverly Hills to clarify the murder of his friend Mikey, allegedly to visit his old friend Jenny, who runs a studio for Victor Maitland there. When Axel visits the well-shielded Maitland in his office building and asks him uncomfortable questions about Mikey's previous work, Maitland lets him out through the closed glass door, where he ends up right at the feet of the arriving police. Since the officers found his service weapon during Axel's search and he did not identify himself as a police officer, he was initially arrested. After the situation has been clarified, Foley's Californian colleagues John Taggart and Billy Rosewood are now assigned to guard him. Foley has since moved into a very expensive hotel with the trick of an allegedly sloppy reservation and with the pretense of being a Rolling Stone reporter, rented an entire suite for the price of a single room. In contrast to Axel, Taggart and Rosewood adhere to the rules exactly, which makes their job anything but easier for them, as Foley is known to use very unorthodox methods. Several times they have to explain themselves to their superior Lieutenant Bogomil because they fail to observe Foley. So Axel z. B. Serve dinner to your company car to distract you while he overrides the car with bananas in the exhaust and then continues to investigate undisturbed. He also manages to lure Taggart and Rosewood into a striptease bar, where they coincidentally successfully thwart a robbery together, but again have to justify themselves to their superiors for visiting the bar during their working hours.

In the apparently clean world of the rich and beautiful, Foley manages to successfully investigate with a lot of charm and in an unofficial way. When he sneaks into a bonded warehouse that Maitland also uses for its long-distance trade, he is approached by a security guard. Given that he is a customs inspector, he now examines the stored goods with the involuntary cooperation of all employees. Here it turns out that Maitland smuggles drugs and securities on a large scale between his works of art. Finding coffee powder to cover the smell on your first visit to Maitland's warehouse provides the first clues. Mikey's “takeaway” securities were also contraband, which is why he was killed by Maitland's henchmen. Although the Beverly Hills police are now convinced of Maitland's guilt, Lieutenant Bogomil found himself unable to open a fuller investigation immediately, and Foley was expelled from the city by Police Commissioner Hubbard for causing public nuisance.

On the way to the city limits, Foley persuades Rosewood to search the Maitland warehouse more closely on their own together with Jenny. Rosewood is outside when Foley and Jenny discover a shipment of drugs there, but are surprised and captured by Maitland's thugs. While Jenny is being brought to Maitland's mansion, Rosewood frees Foley from the warehouse. Together with Taggart they storm Maitland's villa, where they engage in a firefight with Maitland and his henchmen, in which Foley is injured and Maitland is shot at the end. Lieutenant Bogomil, who actively participated in the operation, can present the necessary evidence to his boss Hubbard on the spot, names only his own people as the main actors in the police operation and thus makes Foley an important witness, but beyond that only an observer in the Maitland villa, so that this skilful interpretation has no consequences for Foley's procedure. Since Axel contributed significantly to the smuggling ring, Lieutenant Bogomil promises him that he will put in a good word for him and clarify the situation with Inspector Todd in Detroit.

Axel is picked up by Taggart and Rosewood to be taken out of town. Foley persuades them to make one last stop for a drink outside the city limits.

background

The shooting of the film with a budget of 15 million US dollars began on May 14, 1984 in Beverly Hills , Pasadena and Hollywood in California , as well as in Detroit and Dearborn in Michigan . Here played Beverly Hills Cop one in the US alone and 235 million US dollars worldwide total of 316 million again.
When Sylvester Stallone could be won for the role of Axel Foley, the script had to be expanded to include numerous action scenes. As a result, the planned budget should increase to around 20 million US dollars. The studio did not want to increase the budget, however, and Stallone (who was considered a great action star at the time) could not be persuaded to shoot the film without major action scenes. So you separated from Stallone as the main actor and instead hired Eddie Murphy . Instead of the expensive action scenes, the script was then expanded to include comedy-like elements and tailored to Eddie Murphy.
The film set, which is supposed to depict the police offices of Beverly Hills, was built on the basis of the NORAD control center from the film WarGames . Director Martin Brest had already developed this film set for WarGames before he was replaced there by John Badham as director.
Some of the finished scenes were distributed shortly before the shooting, so Stephen Elliott, as Police Commissioner Hubbard , holds rolled up papers in his hand that contain the text he had received for this scene a few minutes ago.

Damon Wayans has a small role in the film as a hotel employee at the buffet .

The film was a big box-office hit and has two sequels. While Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), shot on a budget of $ 20 million, was another big hit, Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), shot by a completely different production team on a budget of $ 50 million, remained , well below expectations. Executive directors were Tony Scott on Beverly Hills Cop II and John Landis on Beverly Hills Cop III .

Locations

Contrary to the film title, the filming locations were by no means limited to Beverly Hills, but extended over the entire region of Los Angeles and in parts even as far as Detroit:

The Beverly Palms Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard appearing in the movie is indeed made up, while the associated scenes in Old Town LA were filmed at the 700-room Millennium Biltmore Hotel at 506 South Grand Avenue. The property has been used as a film set on several occasions , including The Sting , Ghostbusters , Independence Day, and Daredevil , and was even the location of the Academy Awards for a while in the 1930s.
The scene in which Foley is arriving in Beverly Hills was filmed on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills .
The Beverly Hills City Hall on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills served as the police station.
The Harrow Club recordings were made at the Athenaeum, a building belonging to the California Institute of Technology , 551 South Hill Avenue in Pasadena .
The villa at 609 East Channel Road in Pacific Palisades served as Victor Maitland's estate .

Film music

The title music of the film, the instrumental piece Axel F , was composed by Harold Faltermeyer . Various new versions of the title were later recorded by various performers.

The soundtrack won an award at the 1986 Grammy Awards for Best Album of Original Music Written for a Movie or TV Special .

Version: CD label: MCA Records Article number: 811 870-2 / MCD 03253 / DMCL 1870

Patti LaBelle - New Attitude
Shalamar - Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills
Junior - Do You Really (Want My Love?)
Rockie Robbins - Emergency
Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance
Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Danny Elfman - Gratitude
Patti LaBelle - Stir It Up
The System - Rock'n Roll Me Again
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F.

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dubbing book by Arne Elsholtz under his dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron .

Role name	actor	Voice actor
Det. Axel Foley	Eddie Murphy	Randolf Kronberg
Det. William "Billy" Rosewood	Judge Reinhold	Uwe Paulsen
Det. Sgt. John Taggart	John Ashton	Edgar Ott
Jeannette "Jenny" Summers	Lisa Eilbacher	Susanna Bonaséwicz
Lt. Andrew Bogomil	Ronny Cox	Rolf Schult
Victor Maitland	Steven Berkoff	Norbert Langer
Mikey Tandino	James Russo	Thomas Danneberg
Zack (Maitland's right hand)	Jonathan Banks	Joachim Pukass
Police Chief Hubbard	Stephen Elliot	Eric Vaessen
Insp. Douglas Todd	Gilbert R. Hill	Herbert Stass
Det. Foster	Kind Kimbro	Axel Lutter
Det. McCabe	Joel Bailey	Ortwin Speer
serge	Bronson Pinchot	Arne Elsholtz
Det. Jeffrey Friedman	Paul Reiser	Michael Nowka
Banana waiter	Damon Wayans	Santiago Ziesmer

criticism

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“Undemanding, but turbulent mix of clothes and action thriller; Staged halfway routinely, sometimes shrill exaggerated, the film sometimes has cynical and discriminatory moments. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

BAFTA Awards 1985

Nomination in the category Best Theme Music for Harold Faltermeyer

Edgar Allan Poe Award 1985

Nomination in the Best Film category

Golden Globe Awards 1985

Nominated for Best Actor - Musical / Comedy for Eddie Murphy
Nomination in the category Best Film - Comedy / Musical

1986 Grammy Awards

Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Music Written for a Film or TV Special for the Composers: Marc Benno, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, Micki Free, Jon Gilutin, Hawk, Howard Hewett, Bunny Hull, Howie Rice, Sharon Robinson, Dan Sembello, Sue Sheridan, Richard C. Theisen II, Willis Avenue

Academy Awards 1985

Nomination in the category Best Original Screenplay for Daniel Petrie Jr. and Danilo Bach

People's Choice Award 1985

People's Choice Award for Best Film

Stuntman Award 1985

Stuntman Award in the Best Vehicle Stunt category for Eddy Donno

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

Sequels

1987: Beverly Hills Cop II
1994: Beverly Hills Cop III
A sequel was planned as a television series. A first pilot film was also made in 2013, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld , but the concept was not adopted by broadcaster CBS.
At the beginning of May 2014 it became known that a fourth movie was originally planned for 2016. The director is Brett Ratner , the script is to be written by Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec.
In mid-November 2019, Paramount Pictures announced a fourth part with Eddie Murphy, which, however, should only be published via the Netflix streaming service and thus escapes a theatrical exploitation. An exact date has not yet been set.