Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
- photographer
- private eye
- whorehouse
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Clint Eastwood
Lieutenant Speer
Burt Reynolds
Mike Murphy
Jane Alexander
Addy
Madeline Kahn
Caroline Howley
- Rip Torn — Primo Pitt
- Irene Cara — Ginny Lee
- Richard Roundtree — Dehl Swift
- Tony Lo Bianco — Leon Coll
- William Sanderson — Lonnie Ash
- Nicholas Worth — Troy Roker
- Robert Davi — Nino
- Jude Farese — Dub Slack
- John Hancock — Fat Freddy
- Jack Thibeau — Garage Soldier
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin — Counterman Louie
- Directed
- Richard Benjamin
- Written
- Joseph Stinson, Blake Edwards
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 221 ratings
- Studio
- Deliverance Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
