Beverly Hills Cop II - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Beverly Hills Cop II or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Beverly Hills Cop II

[jesse]

Axel gives his name as "Richard James" in the gun club. As in Rick James. Eddie Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy would later become infamous on Chappelle's Show (2003) for his story in which the infamous line "I'm Rick James, bitch!" was uttered.

[steve]

Jürgen Prochnow and Dean Stockwell were both in "Dune (1984)." They also appeared together in "Air Force One (1997)," alongside Paul Guilfoyle.

[ronnie]

At 1 hour 42 minutes, the shortest running-time of all the Beverly Hills Cop movies made so far.

[gerald]

There was a deleted scene from the Shooting Club where Axel, Rosewood, and Taggart must carefully sneak past a hallway with several lasers covering it. Axel tells Taggart to blow cigar smoke across the floor to expose the lasers and the trio have to carefully straddle the lasers and sneak across the hallway to Dent's office. According to director Tony Scott, this scene was deleted because it slowed the pacing of the movie too much and because it was "too far removed from reality" and it clashed with the overall tone of the movie. The deleted scene can be viewed in the DVD extras.

[claude]

In the scene where Taggart and Rosewood enter Axel's "house" in Beverly Hills, Rosewood remarks to Taggart that maybe The Pointer Sisters live in the house. The Pointer Sisters performed the song "Neutron Dance" in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and they also perform "Be There" in the second.

[riley]

Tony Scott wanted Hans Zimmer to score, but "Paramount" insisted on a name composer and Harold Faltermeyer returned.

[jamie]

Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer hired Tony Scott to direct because of the good job he did on Top Gun (1986).

[nicholas]

The cement truck that Billy drives has a sticker saying DS/JB Construction Company. DS and JB stand for the film's producers, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

[leo]

When Axel asks Billy for Sidney Bernstein's licence plate, Billy replies "C-R-L-5-0-7", a real police officer would have responded "Charles-Robert-Lincoln Five-Zero-Seven". Officers are trained to use the phonetic alphabet.

[jim]

At the Oil Fields, Axel sends Taggert and Rosewood around the back and he goes around front. In Beverly Hills Cop, Axel sent them around the front while he went around back at Maitland's house.

[ken]

Brigitte Nielsen starred in Cobra with Sylvester Stallone, the film that Beverly Hills Cop was intended to be. There is even a poster of Cobra in one scene.

[frances]

The villains' plan is similar to the plot of the 1936 novel "The A.B.C. Murders" by Agatha Christie.

[jamie]

When Axel, Rosewood and Taggart run the map coordinates they got from their late-night snoop at the Beverly Hills Shooting Club into the computer, it displays a map pointing the location of the City Deposit at 9752 Gregory Way. The map that appears is indeed an accurate map and there really is a 9752 Gregory Way, however there is no City Deposit or similar building. That particular area is an upper-to-high-class residential area and 9752 Gregory Way is a mansion.