EDITOR’S NOTE: Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues was on the CBS Late Movie on April 28, 1988.
Amanda Ryder (Lisa Hartman) is in Los Angeles to bring learn who killed one of her friends. She teams with fashionable LAPD detective Harry Wilde (James Brolin) and if you don’t think these two are going to have sex, you’ve never seen a movie before.
What surprised me is that David Hemmings shows up as Ian Blaize, the villain of this, and a man who employs a man dressed as a woman who is good at kickboxing as his henchperson. That’s big thinking today, much less 1985.
Imagine if Lisa Hartman was Eddie Murphy, because that’s what this movie is. It’s kind of, sort of Beverly Hills Cop and if you don’t believe me, the synth heavy soundtrack by Mark Snow — not yet the man who would make the theme for The X-Files — will remind you over and over again.
Director Corey Allen also made Cry Rape, while writer Rick Husky created S.W.A.T.
I thought that the villain was going to end up being Brolin, so I was happy that at the end, it seemed like these two cop lovers are going to try and make a go of it in Los Angeles. That said, their series never happened, so who knows what happened next.
You can watch this on YouTube.
