Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.
Books with substantial mentioning of Beverly Hills Cop
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Jürgen Müller Die besten Filme der 80er Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005 |
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Kathryn Bernheimer The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking Secaucus, NJ, 1999 |
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James Robert Parish The Great Cop Pictures Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990 |
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Peter van Gelder Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films London, 1990 |
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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 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, A Survey of 1984 Films Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985 pp. 88-92 
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