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City Heat
Action, Comedy, Crime
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy buddy-crime capers built around mismatched personalities, period atmosphere, and easygoing action-comedy banter.
- Tone
- playful, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, adrenaline
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- reluctant partnership, rivalry, organized crime, revenge
- Setting
- 1930s, crime-ridden urban streets and illicit nightlife
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