Talk:48 Hrs.

The Cadillac DeVille convertible in this film was a beater.

what's a beater?

--Charlesknight 12:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

• In this context, a "beater" is a beat-up old car. --Davecampbell 03:22, 6 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I don't know how relevant it is, and I'll leave it up to someone else to integrate it (or not) along with the other trivia into the article itself - but whenever I hear Nolte refer to Chinatown as "down the alley" from the Mission District, I just cringe. FWIW. --Davecampbell 03:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

There are two times in the movie in which the same footage of Murphy and Nolte ride around in Nolte's Cadillac. When Nolte and Murphy first leave the police station together they ride through town to go see Luther. If you notice, as they're driving, an extremely dusty convertible (Reggie's car) is two cars ahead of them. Later in the movie when tailing Luther after he gets Reggie's car out of the parking garage the same footage is used. As a pointer or hint, when looking for these scenes, note that both have a yellow vertical rectangular street sign with a black circle in the center. Odd that this same footage would be cut in twice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.2.228.174 (talk) 02:57, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Everything in the Trivia section is unsourced so I've moved it here until it can be verified and/or integrated into other sections. --J.D. (talk) 20:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

• The Cadillac DeVille convertible in this film was a beater. A similar car painted with watercolors for a weathered appearance was used in the sequel.
• David Patrick Kelly appears as Luther in this film; his first film role was in the Walter Hill film The Warriors where his character's name was also Luther.
• Pieces of the score, composed by James Horner, were used again in Commando, Red Heat and Another 48 Hrs.
• "Roxanne" by The Police is sung by Murphy's character in the prison scene.
• In a continuity moment, in the long-shot of the scene where Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) pulls his Cadillac DeVille around a corner onto Luther's street, Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) can be seen with his arm resting across the back of Jack's seat. However when Cates parks the car, Hammond is hand-cuffed, as he was in the scene prior to the long-shot.
• In a shot prior to that long-shot, when Jack and Reggie are shown in traffic, there is another continuity error: Reggie's car, driven by Luther, is seen a few car-lengths ahead of Jack's car; this shot is in fact recycled from a shot much later in the film.
• A popular scene in this movie is often referred to as an example for film continuity errors. When Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is at the police station with Detective Kehoe, a lamp mysteriously moves around the room as the scene unfolds. The lamp does not change, but it resides in five different distinct positions in the room.
• Marcelino Sanchez, who also stared in The Warriors with James Remar and David Patrick Kelly, had an uncredited role in the film, as the worker at the parking lot where he gives Luther the car with $500,000 in the trunk.
• San Francisco's Chinatown is not "down the alley" from the Mission District, as portrayed in the film.
• Despite the fact that Jack Cates and Albert Ganz are the main protagonist and antagonist, Ganz has roughly 10 lines directed towards Jack in the entire film, while Jack has 10 words directed towards Ganz (2 5-word lines).

I changed "n---er" to "nigger," due to pointless censorship. It's a quote from the movie, not an advocation of racism.

Shall we call 48 Hrs. a thriller action crimedy-drama film or is it just fine as is? --TMProofreader (talk) 19:25, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

 Template:48 Hrs. has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. InfiniteNexus (talk) 03:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)Reply