Red Heat

Red Heat (1988)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1988-06-17

Country

United States, Hungary, Netherlands

Production

TriStar Pictures, Carolco Pictures, Lone Wolf, Oak Pictures, Lone Wolf Pictures

Genre

Action, Crime

Budget

$29 000 000

Revenue

$34 994 648

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Director

Walter Hill

Actors

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, Richard Bright, Brent Jennings, Gretchen Palmer, Pruitt Taylor Vince
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna

Operator

Matthew F. Leonetti

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Jackie Burch

Editing

Freeman A. Davies, Donn Aron, Carmel Davies
All team (40)

• The first Western film whose crew was permitted to film on Red Square in Moscow.
• Most of the Moscow scenes were actually filmed in Hungary.
• The film is dedicated to the memory of stunt coordinator Benny Dobbins, who died of a heart attack on the set of this film.
• Around 200 prisoners were used as extras for filming the prison scene.
• Before filming began, Arnold Schwarzenegger took Russian language lessons for three months.
• Before filming began, James Belushi spent two weeks working at a Chicago police station.
• Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a "Podberin 9.2mm" pistol. This pistol does not actually exist. What is shown in the film is a modified "Desert Eagle Magnum".
• In one scene of the film, Danko discusses the problem of heroin in America. He also names a location in the US where this problem is most acute – Harlem, however, in the English subtitles, this location is indicated as Miami.
• Before filming began, Walter Hill asked Arnold Schwarzenegger to lose 10 pounds (approximately 4.5 kg), and James Belushi to gain 10 pounds.
• In the coffee shop, Rydzyk shows Danko various police reports that he needs to fill out. If you look closely at the form shown in close-up, you can see its title – "Useless Chicago Police Incident Report".
• It took the filmmakers six months to obtain permission to film in Red Square. They were allowed to film in the very center of Moscow only because the main character of the film was Russian.
• The name and signature preceding Ivan Danko's in the hotel guestbook belong to Jim Morrison, the leader of The Doors.
• The music in the opening and closing credits is a fragment of Prokofiev's "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution," which is not even mentioned in the credits.
• The drug dealer dressed in a white suit whom Rostaveli met at the bus station is named Lupo. He is the same Lupo from the film "Extreme Measures" (1987): he appears at the very end of the film, after Nick Nolte's character has shot Powers Boothe's character.
• It took the filmmakers six months to obtain permission to shoot on Red Square. They were only granted permission because the main character was Russian.
• Filming began on August 26, 1987, and took place in the USA, Hungary, and the USSR. Most of the Moscow scenes were filmed in Hungary.
• Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a "Podberin 9.2mm" pistol. This pistol does not actually exist. What is shown in the film is a modified Desert Eagle Magnum.
• In one scene, Danko discusses the problem of heroin in America. He also names a place in the US where this problem is most acute – Harlem, but in the English subtitles, this location is indicated as Miami.
• Before filming began, Walter Hill asked Arnold Schwarzenegger to lose 4.5 kg, and James Belushi to gain the same amount.
• In the coffee shop, Reidzik shows Danko various police reports that he needs to fill out. The form reads: “Useless Chicago Police Department Accident Report.”
• The music in the opening and closing credits is a fragment of Prokofiev's "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution," which is not mentioned in the credits.
• Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a "Podberin 9.2mm" pistol. This pistol does not actually exist. What is shown in the film is a modified Desert Eagle Magnum.
• In the coffee shop, Reedick shows Danko various police reports that he needs to fill out. The form reads: “Useless Chicago Police Department Incident Report.”
• The music in the opening and closing credits is a fragment of Prokofiev’s “Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution,” which is not mentioned in the credits.