City Heat

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds are the two fast-talking lawmen taking on Kansas City mobsters. Features an appearance by Richard Shaft Roundtree and some neat work by Eastwood undermining the tough guy reputation enjoyed by all three., A super slick private eye and hard nosed police lieutenant, once friends but now bitter enemies, reluctantly team up to investigate a murder., This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer’s old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a captivating rogue at heart. With a sub-text of playing their well-known screen personas off each other, Eastwood and Reynolds provide more than a surface interpretation of the characters that made them famous. After Murphy’s partner is murdered, he focuses on pitting one mob boss against another in an attempt to have both mobsters kill each other. In the meantime, Lt. Speer — who has never approved of Murphy’s private detective business — does not really know if Murphy is for or against the two top gangsters. Set in the era of speakeasies and Prohibition, an added layer of “film noir” can be discerned under the complex plot, verbal repartée, and episodes of toned-down violence (a kind of parody in themselves). Although this may not be the best film either star has made, it is still interesting to see them together on screen., Gangster action-comedy about a private eye and a police lieutenant who form an uneasy partnership in urban Prohibition-era America. Both have their own reasons for wanting to catch the local criminal kingpin., Two fast-talking lawmen, once bitter enemies, team up to take on a gang of Kansas City mobsters., A cop-turned-PI teams up with a by-the-book officer to target Prohibition-era gangsters., In Kansas City in the 1930’s private investigator Mike Murphy’s partner is brutally slayed, when he tries to blackmail a mobster with his secret accounting records. Lieutenant Speer and his ex-colleague Mike Murphy team up again to fight the mob, although they can’t stand each other., Gangster action comedy about a private eye and a police lieutenant who, in an attempt to catch the local criminal kingpin, form an uneasy partnership in Prohibition-era America.