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Released
1984 · FILM

City Heat

“When a hotshot cop and a wise-guy detective get together... the heat is on!”

Directed by
Richard Benjamin
Written by
Blake Edwards, Joseph Stinson
Runtime
97 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

Set in Kansas City in 1933, the film features Eastwood as a police lieutenant named Speer. Reynolds portrays a former cop turned private investigator named Mike Murphy. Speer and Murphy previously worked together on the police force and were once close friends, but have since become bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is killed, the two reluctantly reunite to take on the mob.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jacqueline CambasShot by Nick McleanScored by Lennie NiehausDesigned by Edward C Carfagno

Box Office

1984 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$38.3M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$38.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.3M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.4M — 22% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,393 theaters

Also known as

  • City Heat - Der Bulle und der Schnüfflerde
  • Haut les flingues !fr
  • Per piacere... non salvarmi più la vitait

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