Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will add two new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Richard Benjamin's
City Heat (1984) and Clint Eastwood's
True Crime (1999).
City Heat
In Kansas City 1933, wisecracking detective Murphy (Burt Reynolds) tracks the killer of his partner. Police Lt. Speer (Clint Eastwood) doesn't have much tolerance for the local mob war's body count. Neither guy likes each other, so that makes them a dream team. And it provides the ideal scenario as they clean up the town with slugfests and shoot-'em ups that parody Reynolds' and Eastwood's macho screen images.
Director Richard Benjamin gets the '30s stylishly right and the supporting cast - Jane Alexander, Irene Cara, Rip Torn, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco and Madeline Kahn - makes the antics sparkle. Hard-boiled and hilarious,
City Heat is your red-hot ticket to starry entertainment.
STREET DATE: MAY 3.
True Crime
Boozer, Skirt chaser, Careless father. You could create your own list of veteran reporter Steve Everett's faults, but right now there isn't time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner will die at midnight - a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Clint Eastwood memorably plays Everett in True Crime, a savvy beat-the-clock thriller. Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Diane Venora and others populate this suspense tale that tightens to nerve-scramble to save him...and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap along the way. Everett is harried, determined and trying not to self-destruct. And the clock is ticking.
STREET DATE: MAY 3.