Red Heat (1988 film)

Red Heat
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Walter Hill
Screenplay by	Walter Hill Harry Kleiner Troy Kennedy Martin[1]
Story by	Walter Hill[1]
Produced by	Walter Hill Gordon Carroll[1] Mario Kassar
Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger James Belushi Peter Boyle Ed O'Ross
Cinematography	Matthew F. Leonetti[1]
Edited by	Donn Aron Carmel Davies Freeman A. Davies[1]
Music by	James Horner[1]
Production company	Carolco Pictures[1]
Distributed by	Tri-Star Pictures[1]
Release date	June 17, 1988 (1988-06-17) (Los Angeles & New York)
Running time	103 minutes[1]
Country	United States[1]
Language	English
Box office	$34.9 million (US)[2]

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 a salary of $8 million for his role in the film.^[3]