City Heat (1984)

Storyline

Kansas City in the 1930s: 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: while Speer is taciturn, Murphy is a prattler. City Heat, the 1984 Richard Benjamin gangster unlikely buddy crime action thriller (“When a hot-shot cop and a wise-guy detective get together… The heat is on!”; “Take Clint the street-smart cop… take Burt the wise-guy private eye… and then take cover!”; “Story by Sam O. Brown”) starring Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, and Tony Lo Bianco