Movies - 48 Hrs.

	Movies - 48 Hrs.

48 Hrs. is a 1982 action comedy film directed by Walter Hill, starring Eddie Murphy , Nick Nolte, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Brion James, and Annette O'Toole. The screenplay was written by Hill, Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and an uncredited Jeb Stuart. Murphy and Nolte play a convict and a cop who team up to catch a cop-killer. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime. This was Eddie Murphy's film debut.

Summary

Convicted robber Albert Ganz escapes from prison with the help of his partner Billy Bear. They soon check into the Walden Hotel in San Francisco under false names. They call prostitutes in the hotel who later would be used for hostages. Alcoholic San Francisco cop Jack Cates, played by Nick Nolte, and two of his fellow officers VanZant and Algren go to the Walden Hotel to check on a guy named G. P. Polson, which is a pseudonym. It is actually Ganz. Ganz and Billy kill Algren and VanZant in a bloody shootout using the prostitutes as hostages, then escape. Jack wants revenge, so he convinces his boss, Haden, to let him work alone on this case. Jack goes to a prison and visits Ganz and Billy's former partner Reggie Hammond, played by Eddie Murphy, and Jack decides to release Reggie Hammond for 48 hours so Reggie can help him find Ganz and Billy, but Jack and Reggie are not getting along with each other. The tension between them gets so high that they end up beating each other up in a garbage filled alley on their first night together, then it turns out that Reggie has $500,000 stashed away in the trunk of his car, and his car has been in a parking garage, for three years, ever since he was convicted. Ganz and Billy are after the money, so they have kidnapped Rosalie, the girlfriend of their former partner Luther, in order to force Luther to get the car with the money in it. With this in mind, Jack and Reggie try to find Ganz and Billy before Jack has to return Reggie to the prison. Reggie and Jack end up killing Ganz and Billy in San Francisco's Chinatown. By the end they become good friends and Reggie is placed back in jail after 48 hrs.

The film spawned a 1990 sequel, Another 48 Hours.

Trivia

The Cadillac DeVille convertible seen in the film was a beater; in the sequel, a similar car was used which was painted over with watercolors making the vehicle weathered.

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