48 HRS. was released in 1982 and was directed by Walter Hill. The movie starred Nick Nolte and the at that point ascending to super stardom Eddie Murphy. The file was written to star Clint Eastwood and Richard Pryor. The movie which was made for $12 million went on to gross over $78 million.
The premise of this "buddy cop" movie was that hard nosed,hard living cop Jack Cates (Nolte) is on the trail of escape prisoner and cop killer Albert Ganz. Running out of options in tracking Ganz down Cates has to resort to getting a member of the Ganz gang who is still in prison to help him. The one caveat is that they only have 48 hours to track him down. The gang member Reggie Hammond (Murphy) is less then forthcoming with the information Cates needs to track Ganz down.
Reggie is on a mission also as he knows exactly what Ganz is after and he wants it just as much as Ganz does. He needs to figure how to get his hands on the object while keeping Cates out of the loop. The initial friction between these two is hilarious. Cates and Reggie traverse the city looking for Ganz and his cohort Billy Bear as time is running out. Reggie even tries his hand at "rousting a bar" leading to comical results
48 HRS took a already famous from Saturday Night Live Eddie Murphy and turned him into a movie star. Eddie Murphy became a bankable star that brought everyone to the movies. This movie did have a sequel in 1990 called Another 48 HRS though not the critical success the original the movie did gross over $153 million worldwide. Also the dynamics had changed where as Eddie Murphy recieved $450,000 for the first movie and Nick Nolte got $1 million in the sequel Murphy got $9 million to Nolte's $3 million. This movie lives on in the numerous quotes from the film such as:
"What are you are smiling at watermelon.."
"There is a new sheriff in town and his name is Reggie Hammond"
" You said bu*** and experience is all it takes right? well come experience some of my bu***"
Keep It Oldskool Remembers when Eddie Murphy was still funny
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