theater. As she tries to escape, she is hit by a car and seriously injured. After Murphy shows Addy the "laundry" containing the missing financial records, two goons shoot holes through his apartment door. He hits them with a baseball bat when they charge into the apartment and then runs. A gun fight between Coll's men and Pitt's men breaks out on the street below. Murphy hides as the rival thugs battle it out, with Lieutenant Speer watching until one puts a round through Speer's car windshield. Speer pulls out a 12-gauge shotgun, walks up the street, and finishes the fight. Murphy and Speer vow to avenge Ginny and to rescue Caroline, who has been kidnapped by Pitt's gang to force Murphy to hand over the missing records. A final showdown with Pitt and his gang occurs in a warehouse. In a high class bordello, Speer and Murphy rescue Caroline. Coll shows up holding Addy at gunpoint and demands his records. Murphy hands over the books in exchange for Addy, but the suitcase is booby-trapped; Coll's car is blown up with him in it. The movie ends with Speer, Addy, Murphy, and Caroline double-dating at the club, listening to Ginny sing and enjoying themselves until Murphy's smart mouth provokes a brawl with some of the other patrons. Cast Clint Eastwood as Lieutenant Speer Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, P.I. Jane Alexander as Addy, Murphy's Secretary Madeline Kahn as Caroline Howley Rip Torn as Primo Pitt Beau Starr as Pitt Lookout Irene Cara as Ginny Lee Richard Roundtree as Diehl Swift, P.I. Tony Lo Bianco as Leon Coll William Sanderson as Lonnie Ash Nicholas Worth as Troy Roker Robert Davi as Nino Art LaFleur as "Bruiser" Jack Nance as Aram Strossell, The Bookkeeper Tab Thacker as Tuck, The Bouncer Tom Spratley as Chauffeur Production Blake Edwards wrote the script, initially titled Kansas City Jazz. He originally wrote the script in the 1970s while living in Switzerland. "I really wrote the story for myself," says Edwards. "But when Julie read it, she thought it was the best thing I'd done and over the years friends urged me to film it. So to see it turned into something completely different was very painful for me." Edwards originally was attached to direct, but he was fired during pre-production and replaced with Richard Benjamin. Edwards retained co-writing credit under the pseudonym Sam O. Brown, the