Red Heat
Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Walter Hill and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Moscow Militia Captain Ivan Danko, and Jim Belushi as Chicago police detective Art Ridzik. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridzik work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), who killed Danko's previous partner in the Soviet Union.
Plot
Captain Ivan Danko and Lieutenant Yuri Ogarkov of the Moscow Militia lead a sting operation against Georgian drug kingpin Viktor Rostavili. However, Rostavili manages to evade capture, and in an ensuing firefight, kills Ogarkov and flees to the United States. As Danko is recovering from his injuries, Rostavili is arrested for a minor traffic violation in Chicago, and Danko is subsequently dispatched to America to retrieve the felon, under strict orders not to reveal the true nature of Rostavili's extradition.
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author | Harry Kleiner Troy Kennedy Martin Walter Hill |
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contentLocation | Chicago Moscow |
director | Walter Hill |
events | Chicago Police Department Cold War organized crime |
genre | action comedy thriller |
keywords | ambush arrest attack bus terminal carry on cocaine georgian georgian mafia injured kill minder moscow city police moscow militia police detective sidearm soviet union sting operation street gang street gangs traffic violation united states watch wristwatch |
musicBy | James Horner |
producer | Gordon Carroll Mario Kassar |
productionCompany | Carolco Pictures |
publisher | TriStar Pictures |
recordedAt | Budapest Moscow |
theme | action comedy buddy cop comedy thriller gang war |