A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.


Books with substantial mentioning of 48 Hrs.

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

James Robert Parish and George H. Hill
Black Action Films, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 235 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1989

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1983, A Survey of 1982 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983
pp. 173-177 info

Reviews

Kenneth M. Chanko, 48 Hours, in: Films in Review, vol. 34, 1983 pp. 50-51