Tango & Cash (1989) on Netflix
Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash are the LAPD's best narcotics detectives, rivals who have never met. Their drug busts drain crime lord Yves Perret, who frames them for an FBI agent's murder.
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Plot summary
Lieutenant Raymond Tango works Los Angeles's Westside, Lieutenant Gabriel Cash the Eastside, and each calls himself the better detective. Both are narcotics officers with a string of daring drug busts, and they have never met. The intercepted shipments behind those busts belong to Yves Perret, a crime lord who wants the pair ruined rather than killed. His scheme is to pin an undercover FBI agent's murder on them. Tipped off about a drug deal, the two rivals meet for the first time and find the agent's body; agents arrive and put them under arrest. A pistol left near the corpse and a tape of the supposed shooting seal the case, and both accept a plea bargain on a lesser charge.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tango & Cash (1989)
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- Konchalovsky said the reason he was fired was that he and Stallone wanted to give the film a more serious tone and make it more realistic than the producers wanted, especially Peters, who kept pushing for the film to be goofier and campier, until his relationship with Peters became untenable.
- According to actor Brion James, the film was in disarray from the very beginning, and by the half-way point of the shoot, several months behind schedule, Peters and Konchalovsky were no longer speaking; James said going over budget was not Konchalovsky's fault and that he did not deserve to be fired.
- The original director of photography, Donald Peterman, left the production after four months, including a month of preproduction, and his replacement, Barry Sonnenfeld, was fired by Stallone after only one week's work on the film.
- Because Warner Bros. wanted no risk of the same problems with the MPAA as it had had with Cobra, its previous Stallone movie, it ordered the editors to cut some death scenes in the last part of the movie, which explains the jump cuts every time someone is shot.
- The movie was racing to make its December 15 release, but because the studio complained about every different cut that was edited before it approved the theatrical version, it barely made the deadline and was shipped to theaters in "wet prints", meaning it was just barely completed.
- Sylvester Stallone and Patrick Swayze were signed to star, but after Swayze dropped out and went on to star in Road House, he was replaced by Kurt Russell.
