Red Heat
Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Walter Hill and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet policeman 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. Most of the scenes set in the Soviet Union were actually shot in Hungary. Schwarzenegger was paid $8million for his role in the film. The film is dedicated to the memory of Bennie Dobbins, who died while filming in Austria.
Plot
Moscow City Police officers Ivan Danko and Yuri Ogarkov lead a sting operation against Georgian mafia kingpin Viktor Rostavili. However, Rostavili manages to evade capture, and in the ensuing firefight kills Ogarkov before fleeing to the United States. 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.
More details
| author | Harry Kleiner Troy Kennedy Martin Walter Hill |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago Moscow |
| director | Walter Hill |
| events | Chicago Police Department Cold War organized crime |
| genre | action comedy crime thriller |
| keywords | ambush arrest attack bus terminal carry on cocaine dance school drug dealer flee freight train georgian mafia injured kill minder moscow city police murder police department police officer red square soviet union sting operation traffic violation united states |
| musicBy | James Horner |
| producer | Gordon Carroll Mario Kassar |
| productionCompany | Carolco Pictures |
| publisher | TriStar Pictures |
| recordedAt | Budapest Moscow |
| theme | action comedy buddy comedy buddy cop comedy thriller war |