8/30/2023 0 Comments Beverly hills cop strip baron December 1st), we’ve selected some favorite scenes starring Axel, Rosewood, Taggart and of course Serge. To celebrate the movie on its birthday (it opened on Wednesday, December 5, 1984, but premiered in L.A. Never mind if the two sequels that followed are a mess, the original is still an ’80s movie classic. We all fell in love with Axel Foley, his laugh and his theme song by Harold Faltermeyer (who else taught themselves to play it on a piano despite no other skill with the keys?). This week marks the 30th anniversary of the action comedy, which propelled Murphy to certain movie stardom while maintaining the #1 spot at the box office through March of 1985 (it’s still one of the three longest-running box office champs of all time). It’s hard to imagine Beverly Hills Cop being a vehicle for anyone but Eddie Murphy, but he was a last minute replacement after Sylvester Stallone dropped out and before him Mickey Rourke bailed, as well (for more trivia see what we learned from the DVD commentary).
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