Red Heat (1988 film)

Red Heat
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalter Hill
Screenplay by
Story byWalter Hill[1]
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti[1]
Edited by
  • Donn Aron
  • Carmel Davies
  • Freeman A. Davies[1]
Music byJames Horner[1]
Production
company
Distributed byTri-Star Pictures[1]
Release date
  • June 17, 1988 (1988-06-17) (Los Angeles & New York)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$34.9 million (US)[2]

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 a salary of $8 million for his role in the film.[3]

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  2. ^ "Red Heat (1988) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Harmetz, Aljean (July 25, 1988). "Big Hollywood Salaries a Magnet for the Stars (And the Public)". The New York Times. Retrieved February 1, 2020.