Slick Private Investigator Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) and tough Police Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood), once partners, now bitter enemies, reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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 | |
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Jude Farese | ... | Dub Slack |
| John Hancock | ... | Fat Freddy | |
| Jack Thibeau | ... | Garage Soldier | |
| Gerald S. O'Loughlin | ... | Counterman Louie | |
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Kansas City in the 1930s: Private Investigator Mike Murphy's (Burt Reynolds') partner is brutally murdered when he tries to blackmail a mobster with his secret accounting records. When a rival gang boss goes after the missing records, ex-policeman Murphy is forced to team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood), even though they can't stand each other, to fight both gangs before Kansas City erupts in a mob war. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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blood splatter | buddy cop | exploding car | falling to death | woman wearing lingerie |Taglines:
Take Clint the street-smart cop . . . take Burt the wise-guy private eye . . . and then take cover! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 December 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$6,301,694, 9 December 1984Gross USA:
$38,348,988Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$38,348,988Company Credits
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Lt. Speer: [looks at Murphy] Is there?
Mike Murphy: Well, two sticks of dynamite and a hand grenade.
Lt. Speer: [pause, then] What were you gonna do after you dropped it?
Mike Murphy: I don't know, Ollie.
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Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose
Sung by Al Jarreau
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Blake Edwards was the original writer and director on the project. He stepped aside as director after creative differences with Clint Eastwood. The earlier Burt Reynolds movie Rough Cut (1980) was also originally intended to be directed by Edwards who left that project too. Edwards and Reynolds worked together on The Man Who Loved Women (1983). See more »Goofs
The doctor tells Lt. Speer that Ginny broke her arm when she was hit by the car. However, when she reappears at the end of the movie singing in the club, she is not wearing a cast or showing any sign of injury. See more »Quotes
Primo Pitt: [referring to the briefcase Murphy's holding] He says there's a bomb in there.Lt. Speer: [looks at Murphy] Is there?
Mike Murphy: Well, two sticks of dynamite and a hand grenade.
Lt. Speer: [pause, then] What were you gonna do after you dropped it?
Mike Murphy: I don't know, Ollie.
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This is one of the only times that Clint Eastwood & Burt Reynolds got together. The casting is with great imagination. It was actually made at a good time for both actors and the support cast is good. So what went wrong? Blake Edwards script for this one is just not as funny as other films he wrote. The situation seems contrived and this was a time when Eastwood was doing actions films. The action is just missing here. While Reynolds could do comedy, it seems that both actors didn't get to do in this movie what sold tickets for their fans.
When the movie ends, it just kind of ends in a stand off and you get the feeling like you needed an ending that just isn't here. It is fun seeing these two actors together in this film, but the script is the missing element. Richard Benjamin, a funny man directed, and I am surprised he didn't do better with it as he knows what good comedy is.
While the movie is fun, it is not funny enough. Blake Edwards saved better material for his Pink Panther movies I guess.