City Heat
“When a hotshot cop and a wise-guy detective get together... the heat is on!”
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Genres
Action, Crime, Comedy
Studio
Deliverance Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How City Heat performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$38.3M
Gross Profit
$13.3M
Return
1.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lieutenant Speer
Clint Eastwood
Lieutenant Speer
Mike Murphy
Burt Reynolds
Mike Murphy
Addy
Jane Alexander
Addy
Caroline Howley
Madeline Kahn
Caroline Howley
Primo Pitt
Rip Torn
Primo Pitt
Ginny Lee
Irene Cara
Ginny Lee
Dehl Swift
Richard Roundtree
Dehl Swift
Leon Coll
Tony Lo Bianco
Leon Coll
Lonnie Ash
William Sanderson
Lonnie Ash
Troy Roker
Nicholas Worth
Troy Roker
Nino
Robert Davi
Nino
Dub Slack
Jude Farese
Dub Slack
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