City Heat

City Heat (1984) — watch online on iFILM, a crime comedy pairing Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, directed by Richard Benjamin. Kansas City, 1933: Lieutenant Speer keeps the peace his own way — swift, blunt, non-negotiable — while Mike Murphy, a former cop turned private eye, is hunting whoever killed his partner.

Speer and Murphy have history. They used to work the same beat, now they can barely be in the same room. A flare-up between rival mob factions forces them back together anyway: Speer wants the streets quiet, Murphy wants the man who pulled the trigger. Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn and Richard Roundtree fill out the cast, and the Prohibition-era setting is put together with real care — the suits, the cars, the speakeasies all hold up. What makes the film work is that Eastwood and Reynolds spend most of their screen time needling each other, and both are good at it. Stream City Heat (1984) online on iFILM.