After Burt Reynolds died recently, I looked for many of his films online, including this one which was released 34 years ago and turned out to be the only teaming of Burt and Clint Eastwood during the time they were the two biggest box office stars in the country. I remember reviews of the time not liking this movie as well as the tallies of it being a disappointment financially. Now that I've seen the whole thing, well, it's quite entertaining and I like both Reynolds and Eastwood and many of the supporting cast. Knowing Blake Edwards was the co-writer and the original director but had to leave because of friction with one of the stars was also intriguing to me. He usually did slapstick comedy and some of that shows in a few of the fight scenes but when shooting's involved, those scenes tend to be more dramatic. Character actor Richard Benjamin eventually replaced Edwards and did admirably with the job while Blake changed his name on the screenplay to "Sam O. Brown". I also liked Richard Roundtree, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, and Irene Cara who was fine singing the two standards she performed here. I think I can understand why critics weren't too enthused about this picture and why the public weren't either but to tell the truth, I really enjoyed City Heat.