Red Heat

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Red Heat
Red Heat theatrical poster
Directed by	Walter Hill
Produced by	Gordon Carroll Walter Hill
Written by	Walter Hill Harry Kleiner Troy Kennedy Martin
Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger Jim Belushi Peter Boyle
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Matthew F. Leonetti
Editing by	Donn Aron Carmel Davies Freeman A. Davies
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	June 17, 1988
Running time	103 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Red Heat is a 1988 action/comedy in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Soviet police officer Ivan Danko. His American partner is played by James Belushi. They work together to catch a powerful Soviet (Georgian) drug dealer, Viktor Rostavili.

It was directed by Walter Hill, and written by Hill and Troy Kennedy Martin. Also Starring: Peter Boyle as Cmdr. Lou Donnelly, Ed O'Ross as Viktor Rosta Rostavili and Gina Gershon as Catherine Cat Manzetti.

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Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing more dangerous than making them mad: making them partners.

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The film has gained cult status among Russian speakers, mainly due to its extremely poor Russian, numerous factual errors and portrayal of ethnic stereotypes.
This was the first Western film by a major studio to film in Moscow's Red Square.
Ivan Danko's police uniform is a combination of at least six different uniforms. His hat is a Moscow Commander's Special and he also wears a Parade Band Musician axelbant.
When Danko and his partner discuss the drug problem, the translation says they are referring to Miami while they were actually referring to Harlem.
The teleprinter at the Moscow militia headquarters is seen printing a message in Russian but in the Latin alphabet. Equipment used by the Soviet government would undoubtedly allow the Cyrillic alphabet to be used.
Ivan Danko uses the "Podbyrin 9.2 mm" handgun. It's actually a modified Western Desert Eagle .357 Magnum. The Podbyrin does not exist and was made up as a prop for the movie.
The opening and closing title music for the movie by James Horner is pulled straight from the second movement "The Philosophers" of Sergei Prokofiev's Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. The "borrowing" was uncredited.
The French title of Red Heat is Double Détente, a reference to the Soviet-American détente of the 1980s.
The Moscow car chase scene, where Lada cars pursue one another through the old city, were actually filmed in Budapest, Hungary. Russian roles were played by Hungarian actors with their original voices speaking Russian. The Moscow Police Headquarters scene was filmed at the internal yards of the Buda Castle in Budapest.