When a pair of reckless copkillers break out of prison, grizzled detective jack cates nolte is left no alternative but to spring fasttalking hustler reggie hammond murphy from the penitentiary in order to find the criminals. The screenplay was written by hill, roger spottiswoode, larry gross and steven e. Its hard to believe that this was eddie murphys first film role. Police detective jack cates wants to bring them to justice. Greta blackburn gets naked too, brushing her teeth topless. The film is also notable for being eddie murphys film debut, helping jumpstart his successful career in film as well.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. He cant do it without the help of smooth and dapper murphy, who is. This time, nolte risks life, limb and career as he obsessively tries to bring an elusive master criminal known as the iceman to justice. He secures the release of a convict named reggie hammond, a former partner of ganz, for 48 hours. December 8 comedian eddie murphy makes his film debut in 48 hrs. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime.
The banter and situations concerning the characters are also gleefully unpc. The head of internal affairs kevin tighe wants to prosecute jack since there was no weapon found on the victim. The broad outlines are familiar from the original 48 hrs and the villains and cops are all basic movie stereotypes. Having built a creditable reputation by standing slightly to one side of his action material and looking at it from a. It will go on to launch the extremely popular rambo film franchise. Nolte is a roughedged cop after two vicious copkillers. Billy bear breaks albert ganz out of prison and the two go on a violent crime spree leaving several people dead. His two standup specials, raw and delirious, are breathlessly entertaining. Its the chemistry between nolte and murphy that makes this work, plus the fact that both men really attempt to get into the skin of their character, something mostly ignored in other examples of this genre. Nolte reprises his role as san francisco police officer jack cates, who has 48 hours to clear his name from a manslaughter charge. This buddy cop movie has nick nolte as the cop on the edge and murphy as a convict who agrees to help him get a cop killing duo in exchange for being out and about for, you guessed it, 48 hours. It remains the only sequel to date walter hill has ever directed. Noltes characters oftenenough usage of racial epithets. Oddball cop and tough guy, jack cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects reggie hammond from.
Naturally, the two despise each other and even engage in fisticuffs, but eventually the danger facing them proves a strong enough common bond for them to play on the same team, and even achieve a little mutual admiration. For some though 48 hrs slips below the radar among those minor cult films from the now 72 year old director, but it still has all his trademark visuals and frenetic actionheavy aesthetics. Filme vechi, filme subtitrate online, filme romanesti, documentare. In that one, nolte was on the trail of some cop killers and he sprung hammond. While trying to capture drug lord the iceman, policeman jack cates nick nolte confronts two criminals and kills one of them in selfdefense. Jack nicholson did it in easy rider, wearing the football helmet on the back of the motorcycle. Links go to the internet movie database laserdisc database buy it at buy posters from buy posters from moviegoods buy this soundtrack from. Released by intrada in 2011 special collection volume 155 containing music from 48 hrs. The film stars nick nolte and eddie murphy in his film debut and golden globe award nominated role as a cop and.
That onetwo punch is what gives the movie its fireworks. It happened to faye dunaway when she looked sleepily out of a screen window at warren beatty in bonnie and clyde. Directed by walter hill and starring nick nolte, eddie murphy, annette o\toole and frank mcrae. He came across as so confident in his ability, his star potential was obvious. The next generation, bings granddaughter denise crosby got topless in this eddie murphy classic. The film was rereleased on cic video in the early 1990s in an uncut version with all language left in, rated 18. Sometimes an actor becomes a star in just one scene.
Walter hill, the director of such beautiful but stilted tough guy movies as the warriors and the long riders, has attempted something very different in 48 hours a malebuddy action film thats positively witty and warmhearted compared with his other work. It can sometimes be hard to remember these days, but young eddie murphy was one of the funniest motherfuckers alive. The frequent violence and gunplay, sex and nudity, and profanity fk is common alone give this a solid rrating. I was trying to remember the details of the 1982 film. Gallery of 26 movie poster and cover images for 48 hours 1982. Jack nicholson did it in easy rider, wearing the football helmet on the back of the. Part of 8 pages of info for the 1982 movie from the award winning 80s movies rewind. A variation on the buddycop hybridized genre, 48 hrs. A hardnosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wisecracking criminal temporarily paroled to. In order to prove his innocence, jack rescues exconvict reggie hammond eddie murphy from a hit ordered by the iceman. He eventually recruits a conman eddie murphy to help him and. Marking an auspicious feature film debut for eddie murphy, 48 hrs. Siskoid before beverly hills cops, eddie murphy was in 48 hrs.
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