Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.

• Deliverance Productions
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Clint Eastwood
• Burt Reynolds
• Jane Alexander
• Madeline Kahn
• Rip Torn
• Irene Cara
• Richard Roundtree
• Tony Lo Bianco