Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: a buddy cop movie with Schwarzy.
Bodybuilding champion, Arnold Schwarzenegger turned to the seventh art from the beginning of the 1970s. If his Austrian accent was at first an obstacle to his acting career in the United States, the young man redoubled his efforts, taking acting and diction lessons.
Efforts paid off since he was revealed to the general public in the mid-1980s, first as Conan the Barbarian, then as Terminator, in the two eponymous films. Propelled to the rank of action movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger has a string of successes in this register (Predator, Running Man), before trying his hand at comedy.
In 1988, simultaneously with the filming of Twins by Ivan Reitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with director Walter Hill on Double Detent. The latter, who finds it difficult to imagine him in the skin of an American character because of his persistent accent, offers him the role of Ivan Danko.
An honest and impassive Soviet police captain sent to Chicago to track down a drug trafficker alongside Art Ridzik, a blundering but clever American policeman.
In line with the buddy movies that flourished at that time (48 hours, Immediate future, Lethal weapon, etc.), Double trigger therefore offers yet another variation of the genre, alternating muscular action scenes and well-felt punchlines around the opposition between Schwarzy and James Belushi.
Typical 1980s entertainment, Double trigger nevertheless stands out for its audacity, given the political situation between Russia and the United States, then in the midst of the Cold War.
The film is also the first American production to be authorized to shoot in Moscow’s Red Square. The rest of the scenes supposed to take place in Russia were filmed in Hungary, in Budapest in particular.
Double trigger by Walter Hill with Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle…
From 12 years old
Tonight on CSTAR at 9:10 p.m.