48 hours only

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Movie
German title 48 hours only
Original title 48 Hrs.
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1982
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Walter Hill
script Larry Gross
Walter Hill
Steven E. de Souza
Roger Spottiswoode
production Lawrence Gordon
Joel Silver
music James Horner
camera Ric Waite
cut Freeman A. Davies
Mark Warner
Billy Weber
occupation
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And again 48 hours

Just 48 hours (Original title: . 48 Hrs ) is a US action - comedy from 1982. The director led Walter Hill , the writer wrote Larry Gross , Walter Hill, Steven E. de Souza and Roger Spottiswoode . The main roles were played by Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy .

action

The robber Albert Ganz is serving a prison sentence and is busy with a group of inmates doing field work when he is forcibly rescued by his friend, the North American Native American Billy Bear. They shoot two guards. Both go to San Francisco, where they murder their former accomplice, Henry Wong. On the same day, police officer Jack Cates witnessed the murder of his colleagues VanZant and Algren, who tried to arrest Ganz, who had paid for his hotel room with a stolen credit card.

Ganz and Billy Bear kidnap the girlfriend of their former accomplice Luther and demand that he surrender $ 500,000 from a gang theft.

Cates tries to find the gangsters with the help of prisoner Reggie Hammond. Hammond was part of the Ganz gang and is enemies with them. Cates is given permission to get Hammond out of jail for 48 hours. For the next two days, the unequal couple depends on each other. The sullen, taciturn Cates and the chatterbox Hammond somehow get together and track down the gangsters by waiting for Luther in front of the parking garage in which Hammond's convertible with the money has been parked for three years. They can only thwart the first handover of money in a subway station; Quite, Bear and Luther escaped. When the money was handed over in a bus for the second time, Ganz shoots Luther and Cates and Hammond are left behind. They confront the gangsters in Ganz's friend's apartment, Bear is shot by Hammond and Ganz by Cates.

In the end, Hammond, meanwhile friends with Cates, returns to prison. Cates promises to keep the half million for him.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that sometimes a single scene makes an actor a star, like Jack Nicholson's star after Easy Rider . The same applies to Eddie Murphy, who in one scene enters a pub, pretends to be a police officer and stirs up the "backwoodsmen" gathered there. Ebert also praised several other scenes with Eddie Murphy and the portrayal of Nick Nolte. He also praised the portrayal of James Remar, who plays a " genuinely evil " killer. He described the script as "experienced".

The lexicon of international films said: “Action thriller trimmed for uninterrupted tension, which works perfectly with set pieces of genre cinema. Drastic in the depiction of violence, rude in the dialogue. "

The editorial staff of the television magazine Prisma said: “Intelligently made and action-packed buddy movie - this is the term used to describe the cinematic encounter between two very different characters who still pull themselves together. Despite some hardships, the film offers amusing entertainment with lots of funny sayings, a few outstanding appearances by Murphy (for example in the redneck bar) and a convincing Nick Nolte. "

Awards

Eddie Murphy was in 1983 for the film award Golden Globe as Best Newcomer nomination. Walter Hill won an award from the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac in 1983 . The screenwriters were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1983 .

James Horner won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in 1982 for film music .

backgrounds

Production costs amounted to approximately 12 million US dollars and the film grossed a total of over 78 million US dollars. Eddie Murphy made his debut in the film.

In 1990 there was the sequel And Again 48 Hours ( Another 48 Hrs. ) With Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in the leading roles. The director was again Walter Hill.

In addition to the uncut version of the film with the FSK rating at that time not under 18 years of age, there is also a shortened version with FSK from 16 years of age . In July 2013, however, the unabridged version also received approval from 16 when it was re-examined, after the continuation, which was previously indexed, had already received a 16 approval.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for only 48 hours . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 53 699 V).
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ↑ Only 48 hours. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Only 48 hours on prisma.de , accessed on November 16, 2012
  5. ↑ Box Office - information from only 48 hours ( memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the PowerGrid - TheWrap page @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / powergrid.thewrap.com
  6. ↑ Only 48 hours - FSK approves the film from 16 years of age