City Heat
- 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
- Jew 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 1984, directed by Richard Benjamin, the screenplay by Blake Edwards and Joseph Stinson. . The film opened on 10 May 1985 in West German cinemas.
Action
The action takes place in Kansas City in 1933, the rank of lieutenant spear was once friends with the earlier working for the police private investigator Mike Murphy.; later the men were rivals. Both flirt with Addy, the secretary of Murphy.
Two men looking at a bar by Murphy, to attack them with fists. The spear present turns on and helps to overpower the attacker.
Spear and Addy visit together to attend a boxing match, the Murphys also business partners Dehl Swift and the gangster Primo Pitt. Swift can be detected the illegal activities of his gang in possession of accounting Primo Pitt, by the. When trying to recoup these books Pitt shoots Swift. Now Murphy falls into the line of fire, because the various gangs suspect that he was in possession of the books. And indeed he manages to find these books in Swift's hideout. In the final two shootings almost all gangsters are extinguished, and Speer and Murphy succeeds, though reluctantly, but hand in hand to bring everything to a good end.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times, the production history is so " stressful " was that there is no power to filmmaking was left. The film was a " confusing mess " that " every ten minutes " telling a pointless story with fighting. Many actors like Irene Cara and Madeline Kahn in the role of a vamp in Marlene Dietrich- style were talented, but every scene seems to have a different inspiration.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a " parody gangster movie and action thriller that undermined with winking self-irony the narrative patterns of the genre and its imagery ."
Awards
Burt Reynolds was nominated in 1985 for the Golden Raspberry.
Background
Originally Blake Edwards should be directing, but he was dismissed and replaced by Richard Benjamin. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 38.3 million U.S. dollars.