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A Balasaur Score of 45 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 22%, Metacritic 39/100. Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. Most of the 757 1980s action movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes22%
Metacritic39/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
221 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard BenjaminDirector
- Lennie NiehausOriginal Music Composer
- Blake EdwardsScreenplay
- Joseph StinsonScreenplay
Cast
- Clint EastwoodLieutenant Speer
- Burt ReynoldsMike Murphy
- Jane AlexanderAddy
- Madeline KahnCaroline Howley
- Rip TornPrimo Pitt
- Irene CaraGinny Lee
- Richard RoundtreeDehl Swift
- Tony Lo BiancoLeon Coll
- William SandersonLonnie Ash
- Nicholas WorthTroy Roker
- Robert DaviNino
- Jude FareseDub Slack
Stills
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Themes
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