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Actors: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Rip Torn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about City Heat |
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An ex-cop, who is now a private eye, and a cop who don't particularely like each team up to solve a case.
The pi's partner was killed because he has evidence against a crime boss.
The pi and the cop try to find the evidence and protect the dead guy's girlfriend.
The pi finds the evidence, but before he can turn it in the crime boss kidnaps his girlfriend. The pi agrees to trade the evidence for the girl.
The cop shows up at the meeting, there's a shootout and all of the bad guys are killed. The pi finds one of the bad guys who survived and finds out where the girl is. She's being held in a cathouse.
The cop and the pi, in disguises, get into the cathouse, beat up the bad guys and rescue the girl. They save the girl, avenge the other pi's death and put the rest of the bad guys in jail.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of City Heat |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal kidnappers
Criminal enemy is...
- Mafia conflict
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- very short/crewcut (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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