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Beverly Hills Cop II
Directed by	Tony Scott
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer Don Simpson
Written by	Eddie Murphy (story) Robert D. Wachs (story)
Starring	Eddie Murphy Judge Reinhold Jurgen Prochnow Ronny Cox John Ashton Brigitte Nielsen Allen Garfield Paul Reiser
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	May 20, 1987
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Beverly Hills Cop
Followed by	Beverly Hills Cop III
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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]

Taglines: "The heat's back on!"

"Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong."

Set approximately two years after the original film, Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggart (John Ashton) are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high end store robberies (and one shooting) distinctive by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters is the new "political" state of the Beverly Hills police, headed by temperamental new police chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), doing everything he can to stay on the Mayors good side.

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 (covering his absence from his actual job in Detroit by telling his commanding officer he was going "deep deep deep DEEP undercover" on the credit card fraud case he had been assigned to) 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.

The song "Hold On" as sung by Keta Bill plays during the scene wherein Axel, Billy, and Taggart confront Dent at the Playboy Mansion. However, the film's soundtrack CD released by MCA Records includes only a different song entitled "Hold On," sung by Corey Hart. This song has different music and slightly altered lyrics. According to Keta Bill, "They contracted with Corey Hart---he heard my version and quickly rewrote the song. When the movie people heard his version they were furious he did that----used my version in the movie, and had to keep their contract with him for the album."

The movie introduced George Michael's controversial song "I Want Your Sex". It also includes "Cross My Broken Heart" by The Jets and "Shakedown" by Bob Seger which became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as "Better Way" performed by James Ingram.

As with the first movie, none of Harold Faltermeyer's soundtrack score has ever been released. However, Harold Faltermeyer's self titled album "Harold F," released in 1988, includes a song called "Bad Guys," which is apparently piece of score which plays during the opening jewelry store robbery scene and through several other scenes in the movie.

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• 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.
• The film was originally to be set and filmed in London and Paris. However, the script was re-written after Eddie Murphy expressed a reluctance to film outside the United States.
• The film was the first American movie to utilize the concept of a laser security grid, although the scene would eventually be cut from the final release.
• When Axel is searching the map coordinates the address of city deposit is 9752 Gregory way but when Taggart is calling for back-up he clearly says the address as 341 Gregory .
• Paul Guilfoyle, best known as Detective Brass on CSI: Las Vegas, has a small part as gun-runner Nikos Thomopolis. The best shot of him, complete with a full head of blond hair, can be seen in the scene at the Playboy Mansion.
• In the scene where the cops return to Billy's (Judge Reinhold) apartment, there is a poster of Sylvester Stallone's Cobra. This is a reference to the fact that Stallone was originally cast as Axel Foley. After being released from the movie, Stallone made Cobra, where Stallone put his ideas into. A Special Edition of Beverly Hills Cop I details Stallone's involvement in the film project. During filming of BHCII, Stallone was married briefly to Brigitte Nielsen.
• In the final shoot-out another reference to Stallone can be heard when John Ashton (Taggert) says "Fuck Rambo." This is after Judge Reinhold (Rosewood) blows up a semi trailer with a rocket launcher (by accident, since he has never fired one before).
• In a noticeable goof, the .44 Auto Mag handgun is stated as being the weapon of choice by the Alphabet bandits. Empty Auto Mag casings are even shown as key pieces of evidence from the first heist. However, no .44 Auto Mag is used by anyone in the film. Most of the bandits use Heckler & Koch MP-5 submachine guns, which are 9 mm. At various points, Karla used a 9 mm and/or a .357 Magnum.
• Chris Rock made his film debut here in a small role as a valet.
• When Axel first meets Chief Lutz, he tells him he is Johnny Wishbone from the Isle of St. Croix. Upon their next meeting, Lutz says that he checked with Immigration and they had never heard of Johnny Wishbone. St. Croix is an island in the US Virgin Islands and therefore Immigration would have no record of anyone from there coming to the Continental US.

• Boxoffice Information
• Beverly Hills Cop II at the Internet Movie Database

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