Beverly Hills Cop II
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Template:Infobox Film Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 live-action film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. This is the sequel to the 1984 hit Beverly Hills Cop and was followed by Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994.
Paramount had planned a television series based on the 1984 original. Eddie Murphy refused the series but was willing to do a sequel. [1]
Set approximately two years after the original film, Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggert (John Ashton) are trying to figure out who is behind the so-called Alphabet Robberies, a series of robberies of high-end shops known for the monogramed envelopes with a mysterious numbered sequence which the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters is the temperamental new police chief, Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield).
While investigating a lead, Bogomil is shot by Karla Fry (Brigitte Nielsen), the chief henchwoman of Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow). Finding out about the shooting over a news report, Axel (Murphy) immediately flies out to Beverly Hills to help find out who shot Bogomil and why. Posing as an undercover FBI agent to get past Lutz, Axel soon starts making the connection between the robberies and Dent, who is financing his gun trade to Central America. Having foiled a robbery attempt at a bank depository, Axel soon uncovers that Dent is planning on making his getaway. Axel, Billy and Taggert track Dent to where he's making his final arms deal and take everyone down, including Dent and Karla.
Soundtrack
A substantial mystery surrounds the omission of the song "Hold On", sung by Keta Bill during the scene wherein Axel, Billy, and Taggert confront Dent at the Playboy Mansion, from the film's soundtrack CD released by MCA Records. There is a song entitled "Hold On" included on the CD, but this is sung by Corey Hart and is a completely different song, and to this day the Keta Bill song has remained a "lost" song. The movie did introduce George Michael's controversial song "I Want Your Sex". It also include "Cross My Broken Heart" by The Jets and "Shakedown" by Bob Seger which became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Trivia
- According to the book High Concept: The Life and Times of Don Simpson, screenwriter Larry Ferguson dictated the final draft of the script to a stenographer naked, carrying a loaded gun and swigging from a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon in order to meet the tight deadline. When asked to comment, Ferguson said he had to do whatever worked for him.