City Heat - The cop and the snoop

Movie
German title	City Heat - The cop and the snoop
Original title	City Heat
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1984
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Richard Benjamin
script	Blake Edwards , ; Joseph Stinson
production	Fritz Manes
music	Lennie Niehaus
camera	Nick McLean
cut	Jacqueline Cambas
occupation
	Clint Eastwood : Lieutenant Speer; Burt Reynolds : Mike Murphy; Jane Alexander : Addy; Madeline Kahn : Caroline Howley; Rip Torn : Primo Pitt; Irene Cara : Ginny Lee; Richard Roundtree : Dehl Swift; Tony Lo Bianco : Leon Coll; William Sanderson : Lonnie Ash; Nicholas Worth : Troy Roker; Robert Davi : Nino; Jude Farese : Dub Slack; John Hancock : Fat Freddy; Jack Nance : Aram Strossell; Art LaFleur : Bruiser;

City Heat - The Bull Moonlighting ( City Heat ) is an American action comedy from the year 1984 . Directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Blake Edwards and Joseph Stinson . The film opened in German cinemas on May 10, 1985.

action

The action takes place in Kansas City in 1933. Police lieutenant Speer was once friends with former police investigator Mike Murphy; later the men became rivals. Both flirt with Addy, Murphy's secretary.

Two men are looking for Murphy in a bar, whom they attack with their fists. The present spear turns on and helps to overwhelm the attackers.

Speer and Addy attend a boxing match, which is also attended by Murphy's business partner Dehl Swift and the gangster Primo Pitt. Swift owns Primo Pitt's accounting department, which provides evidence of the illegal machinations of his gang. Pitt shoots Swift while trying to get these books back. Murphy is now in the line of fire because the various gang gangs suspect he is in possession of the books. And in fact, he manages to find these books in Swift's hiding place. In two final shootings, almost all the gangsters are wiped out, and Speer and Murphy manage, reluctantly but hand in hand, to bring everything to a happy ending.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the production history had been so " grueling " that there was no strength left for filmmaking. The film is a “ confusing mess ” that tells a pointless story with fights “ every ten minutes ”. Numerous actors such as Irene Cara and Madeline Kahn in the role of a vamp in Marlene Dietrich style are talented, but each scene seems to have a different inspiration.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “ parodistic gangster film and action thriller that undermined the narrative patterns of the genre and its imagery with a wink of self-irony ”.

Awards

Burt Reynolds was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1985.

backgrounds

Blake Edwards was originally supposed to direct, but was fired and replaced by Richard Benjamin. The film grossed approximately $ 38.3 million in US cinemas .

Web links

City Heat - The Bull Moonlighting in the Internet Movie Database (English)
City Heat - The Bull Moonlighting at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

[Ebert-1] A ^b Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed October 16, 2007

[2] City Heat - The Bull and the Snoop in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on October 16, 2007

[3] Box office / business for City Heat, accessed October 16, 2007