Tango & Cash
Short description
Two Los Angeles narcotics detectives, the meticulous Ray Tango and the more freewheeling Gabriel Cash, are rivals who each regard himself as the better cop. Their seizures have cost crime boss Yves Perret a great deal of money, and he devises a plan aimed not at killing them but at discrediting them: evidence is arranged so that the pair appear to be corrupt dealers and murderers, and they are convicted and sent to a prison holding many of the criminals they put away. To clear themselves they have to survive the inmates and gather proof against Perret.
Andrei Konchalovsky directed the film, which followed Maria's Lovers and Runaway Train in his filmography and was written by Randy Feldman. Sylvester Stallone plays Tango and Kurt Russell plays Cash, with Teri Hatcher as Tango's sister Kiki, Jack Palance as Perret, Brion James as Requin and James Hong as Quan. The production, mounted by Warner Bros. Pictures with the Guber-Peters Company, cost about 55 million dollars and returned roughly 63 million worldwide.
Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb the film holds 6.4 out of 10 from around 120,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from a much smaller pool of votes, figures that suggest a settled, mildly favourable reputation rather than a strong one.
What's left behind the scenes
- Actor Savely Kramarov appears in one of the film's episodes.
- The prison scenes were filmed at Mansfield Reformatory (also known as Shawshank Penitentiary in the film *The Shawshank Redemption* (1994)), and this occurred before its official closure, meaning the prison was still operational at the time.
- During filming, Andrei Konchalovsky left the project. Albert Magnoli completed the film. However, Andrei Konchalovsky is listed as the sole director in the credits.
- When Tango and Cash are fleeing the prison, Cash turns to Tango and asks him: “Don't you want a coffee and a Danish now?” Tango, played by Sylvester Stallone, replies: “I hate Danish pastries!”, alluding to his recent divorce from Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen.
- Originally, Bryon James’ role as Rekin was very small. James then began speaking with an English accent. This pleased Stallone, who rewrote the script, expanding James’ role.
- Patrick Swayze was originally slated to play Cash, but he left the project and starred in “Road House” (1989) instead.
- The scene in which Tango (Sylvester Stallone) stops the truck is very reminiscent of a scene from "Police Story" (1985), where Jackie Chan does the same.
- Filming took place in Ohio and California from June 12th to October 20th, 1989.
- Barry Sonnenfeld was originally slated to be the cinematographer for this film, but was fired at the request of Sylvester Stallone. He was replaced by Donald I. Torin.
- The film's original title was "The Set Up".
- The full version has a runtime of 104 minutes.
- At the beginning of the film, when Tango shoots the tanker truck and drugs spill out, one of the police officers asks: “Do you think you’re Rambo?” to which he replies: “Rambo is a pathetic loser!”
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