City Heat is a 1984 American buddy-crime comedy film starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, written by Blake Edwards and directed by Richard Benjamin.

Murphy has a new romantic interest, a rich socialite named Caroline Howley, but finds himself unable to commit.

Coll's financial records are actually in the possession of his bookkeeper, who met and colluded with Swift earlier at the club where black singer Ginny Lee is the star attraction.

Swift leaves the boxing ring, tailed by Speer and Addy, and he is confronted by Pitt and his thugs at his apartment with Ginny, who is taken hostage.

After Murphy shows Addy the "laundry" containing the missing financial records, two goons shoot holes through his apartment door.

[2] His jaw was broken, and he was restricted to a liquid diet, causing him to lose over 30 pounds by the time filming wrapped.

[9][10] On Monday, September 20, 2021, an interview with the film's director Richard Benjamin was released on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast that contradicted this story of a stunt injury.

Clint Eastwood, a jazz aficionado, is one of the pianists heard on jazz-oriented soundtrack composed by Lennie Niehaus.

[12] For his roles in this film and Cannonball Run II, Reynolds was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.

[7]City Heat received lackluster reviews, and critics expressed their disappointment with the script and the pairing of the two star actors.

[14] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[15] Roger Ebert gave the film half a star, asking "How do travesties like this get made?"

[16] Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars, writing "Save for two moments when Eastwood does an amusing parody of his angry squint, City Heat is devoid of humor, excitement and amazingly, a comprehensible story.

"[17] Janet Maslin was more positive, writing "overdressed and overplotted as it is, City Heat benefits greatly from the sardonic teamwork of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds.

As he did in My Favorite Year and, to some extent, in Racing with the Moon, Richard Benjamin has settled on an evocative time period and a top-notch cast and more or less left things at that.

City Heat devotes much more energy to props, sets and outfits than to the dramatic streamlining it so badly needed.

'[19] Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post criticized the "embarrassingly broad comedy and Benjamin's smarmy fealty toward his leads.

'[20] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Eastwood and Reynolds were "in fine fettle on their own and together, playing off each other beautifully.

But the pleasure derived in watching them poke fun at themselves and each other in this period gangster comedy is spoiled by a numbing display of violence that is far too literal for such hokum.