
The Nice Guys(2016)
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.


“When a hotshot cop and a wise-guy detective get together... the heat is on!”
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.

Clint Eastwood
Lieutenant Speer

Burt Reynolds
Mike Murphy

Jane Alexander
Addy

Madeline Kahn
Caroline Howley

Rip Torn
Primo Pitt

Irene Cara
Ginny Lee

Richard Roundtree
Dehl Swift

Tony Lo Bianco
Leon Coll

William Sanderson
Lonnie Ash

Nicholas Worth
Troy Roker
City Heat is a action, crime, comedy film released in 1984 exploring themes of photographer, private eye, whorehouse. Directed by Richard Benjamin, it stars Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander. 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.
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