Red Heat (1988 film)

Red Heat
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalter Hill
Screenplay by
Story byWalter Hill
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti
Edited by
  • Donn Aron
  • Carmel Davies
  • Freeman A. Davies
Music byJames Horner
Production
company
Distributed byTri-Star Pictures
Release date
  • June 17, 1988 (1988-06-17) (Los Angeles & New York)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Russian
Box office$34.9 million (US)

Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Walter Hill and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet policeman Ivan Danko, and Jim Belushi as Chicago police detective Art Ridzik. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridzik work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), who killed Danko's previous partner. Most of the scenes set in the Soviet Union were actually shot in Hungary. Schwarzenegger was paid $8 million for his role in the film. The film is dedicated to the memory of Bennie Dobbins, who died while filming in Austria.