Red Heat is a
1988-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
buddy cop filmThe "buddy cop" subgenre of buddy films are crime films with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process...
directed by Walter Hill. The film stars:
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the state of California....
, as
MoscowMoscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...
narcA narc is a police officer investigating crime involving illegal narcotics and other illegal drugs.- Etymology :According to the Oxford English Dictionary, narc is a contraction of narcotic and refers to a narcotics enforcement officer...
Ivan Danko;
James BelushiJames Adam "Jim" Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim.-Early life:...
, as
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
detective Art Ridžić. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridžić work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly
Soviet GeorgianThe Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union.- History :- Preceding Events :On November 28 1917, after October Revolution in Russia, there was established...
drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (
Ed O'RossEd O'Ross is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the giggling spectacled gangster Itchy in Dick Tracy .-Early life:O'Ross was born Edward Orss in Pensacola, Florida....
), who also happens to be the killer of Danko's previous partner back in Russia.
The film was released with the
taglineA tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product , or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product...
Moscow's toughest detective.
Red Heat is a
1988-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
buddy cop filmThe "buddy cop" subgenre of buddy films are crime films with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process...
directed by Walter Hill. The film stars:
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the state of California....
, as
MoscowMoscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...
narcA narc is a police officer investigating crime involving illegal narcotics and other illegal drugs.- Etymology :According to the Oxford English Dictionary, narc is a contraction of narcotic and refers to a narcotics enforcement officer...
Ivan Danko;
James BelushiJames Adam "Jim" Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim.-Early life:...
, as
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
detective Art Ridžić. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridžić work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly
Soviet GeorgianThe Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union.- History :- Preceding Events :On November 28 1917, after October Revolution in Russia, there was established...
drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (
Ed O'RossEd O'Ross is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the giggling spectacled gangster Itchy in Dick Tracy .-Early life:O'Ross was born Edward Orss in Pensacola, Florida....
), who also happens to be the killer of Danko's previous partner back in Russia.
The film was released with the
taglineA tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product , or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product...
Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing more dangerous than making them mad: making them partners. It was the first American film allowed to shoot in Moscow's
Red SquareRed Square is the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod...
.
Synopsis
Soviet Police Captain Ivan Danko sets a trap for Viktor Rostavili (
Ed O'RossEd O'Ross is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the giggling spectacled gangster Itchy in Dick Tracy .-Early life:O'Ross was born Edward Orss in Pensacola, Florida....
), a
GeorgianGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
drug dealer and crime lord. The ambush severely backfires; Viktor flees the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
and comes to the USA, after gunning down several other Moscow cops...including Danko's partner.
Loudmouthed Chicago PD Detective-Sergeant Art Ridžić (
James BelushiJames Adam "Jim" Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim.-Early life:...
) investigates several local murders committed by Viktor's cartel. Suddenly he finds himself partnered with Danko, who has chased Viktor here from Moscow with the intention of capturing the crime baron alive. Danko is frustrated when his lack of a diplomatic license prohibits him from carrying a weapon. He shares his candid observations with Ridžić: "This Chicago is very strange city. Your crime is organized, but your police is not."
Danko and Ridžić pursue Viktor and his henchmen around Chicago. Finally, Danko and Viktor commandeer a couple of Greyhound buses, then engage in a high-speed chase...until Viktor is side-slammed by a train. He takes on Danko in a running, Texas-style shootout (Danko uses a Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum given to him by Ridžić); Viktor is gunned down. Danko returns to Moscow after exchanging wristwatches with Ridžić as an act of goodwill.
Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the state of California....
as Capt. Ivan Danko
- James Belushi
James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim.-Early life:...
as Det. Sgt. Art Ridžić
- Ed O'Ross
Ed O'Ross is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the giggling spectacled gangster Itchy in Dick Tracy .-Early life:O'Ross was born Edward Orss in Pensacola, Florida....
as Viktor Rostavili
- Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....
as Cmdr. Lou Donnelly
- Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character's father Furious Styles in Boyz N The Hood, "Cowboy...
as Lt. Charlie Stobbs
- Gina Gershon
Gina L. Jewshon is an American film and television actress, known for her roles in the films Cocktail , Showgirls , Bound , and Face/Off .-Personal life:...
as Catherine "Cat" Manzetti
- Richard Bright
Richard J. Bright was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films.-Early life & work:...
as Det. Sgt. Gallagher
- J. W. Smith as Salim
- Brent Jennings as Abdul Elijah
- Sven-Ole Thorsen
Sven-Ole Thorsen is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and athlete. He won the Danish "Verdens Stærkeste Mand" competition....
as Nikolai, the Russian Danko fights in the snow
Trivia
- Schwarzenegger was paid a salary of $8 million for his role in the film.
- The prison scene was shot about 45 miles outside of Chicago at the Joliet State Prison. The actors were asked by the wardens to not wear jeans, so that the wardens could identify the actors during a possible shoot-out.
- The French title of Red Heat is Double Détente, a pun referring to the Soviet-American détente
Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since the early 1970s. Generally, it may be applied to any international situation where previously hostile nations not involved in an open war de-escalate tensions through diplomacy and...
of the 1970s.
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