{"id":36245,"date":"2024-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36245"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T17:37:45","slug":"48-hrs-1982-directed-by-walter-hill-starring-nick-nolte-eddie-murphy-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36245","title":{"rendered":"“48 Hrs.” (1982) directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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48 Hrs. (1982)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Walter Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stars: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham, Brion James, Kerry Sherman, James Keane, Greta Blackburn, Margot Rose, Denise Crosby, Olivia Brown, Todd Allen, Jack Thibeau, Ola Ray <\/strong>and Jonathan Banks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn’t have liked each other less. They couldn’t have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for… 48 HRS<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n

When San Francisco detectives, Cates (Nolte),\u00a0 Algren (Banks) and Van Zant (Keane) attempt to arrest two escaped convicts, things go sideways.\u00a0 Algren and Van Zant are killed.\u00a0 The convicts get away.<\/p>\n

Detective Cates has a plan to catch the killers.\u00a0 He’s getting a 48 hour supervised prison release for Reggie Hammond (Murphy). Hammond is a fast-talking, hip con man and thief.\u00a0 Hammond also worked with one of the convicts.\u00a0 Cates believes Hammond’s inside info will lead him to the convicts.<\/p>\n

Cates and Hammond take an instant dislike to each other.\u00a0 Over the next 48 hours they may develop a friendship… if they survive.<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of a cop and a convict working together had been floating around for a while.\u00a0 Paramount hired Walter Hill to write a script with the idea that Clint Eastwood would play the convict.\u00a0 Hill did, but when he finished he said he thought the script would work better with Eastwood playing the cop and someone like Richard Pryor playing the convict.\u00a0 The project went into limbo until a few years passed.\u00a0 Hill was brought back to work with Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his feature film debut).<\/p>\n

Eddie Murphy wasn’t the first actor considered for the role.\u00a0 Gregory Hines was.\u00a0 Other actors considered before Murphy included Howard Rollins, Jr. and Denzel Washington.<\/p>\n

Eddie Murphy’s character’s name originally was Willie Biggs.\u00a0 Murphy thought it sounded like a “Hollywood, made-up, black guy’s name” so it was changed to Reggie Hammond.<\/p>\n

Nick Nolte was paid one million dollars and got top billing.\u00a0 Eddie Murphy made $450,000.00.\u00a0 For the sequel Murphy got top billing and seven million dollars, while Nolte made three million dollars.<\/p>\n

Director Walter Hill has a brief cameo as a convict in the opening chain gang scene.<\/p>\n

Nolte and Murphy, Remar and Landham are perfectly cast.\u00a0 Each pair has the right chemistry.<\/p>\n

48 Hrs. (1982) <\/b><\/i><\/b>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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