Beverly Hills Cop (franchise)

Beverly Hills Cop is a series of American action comedy films, with characters written by Daniel Petrie, Jr. and Danilo Bach. The films star Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a streetsmart Detroit cop who travels to Beverly Hills, California to investigate crimes, even though it is out of his jurisdiction. There, he meets Detective Billy Rosewood Judge Reinhold, Sergeant John Taggart John Ashton, and Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil Ronny Cox. Ashton and Cox do not appear in Beverly Hills Cop III. Murphy, Reinhold, and Gil Hill, who plays Axels boss, Inspector Todd, are the only actors who appear in all three films. Harold Faltermeyer produced the now famous Axel F theme song heard throughout the series. The series as a whole have been distributed by Paramount Pictures. The films have made a total of 735,534,503citation needed worldwide.

In Beverly Hills Cop 1984, Axel Foley Eddie Murphy is introduced as a Detroit cop who, after the murder of his friend, travels to California to investigate and track down the killers, who he believes operate an arts dealership as a cover in Beverly Hills. He teams up with two reluctant detectives, Billy Rosewood Judge Reinhold and John Taggart John Ashton, from the Beverly Hills police department who were supposed to keep a watch on him, especially after seeing Foleys different approach to tackling the situations which were considered unacceptable by the chief of police.In Beverly Hills Cop II 1987, Axel returns to Beverly Hills, after finding out that Captain Andrew Bogomil Ronny Cox was shot. He once again teams up with Detective Billy Rosewood and Sgt. John Taggart, who, reluctantly and against Police Chief Harold Lutzs orders, help Foley to find out the person responsible for Bogomils shooting. Axel, Billy, and John soon discover that the alphabet crimes, a series of felonies robberies and Bogomils shooting that have been going on in the area, are masterminded by weapons kingpin Maxwell Dent. With this information, Axel, Billy, and Taggart try to find Dent and his lover, Karla Fry Brigitte Nielsen, who had shot Bogomil. ........

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