City Heat

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• This movie was one of two pictures that both of this film's stars, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, had in theaters during 1984. Eastwood also was in Tightrope whilst Reynolds was also in Cannonball Run II.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): In the scene where Lt. Speer breaks into the mobster's home to get the slug upon which to run ballistics the mobster asks Speer if Speer has a warrant. The movie takes place prior to 1934 and the repeal of prohibition. There was no requirement for police to have warrants to search citizens' property or to seize such property until the 1940's.
• The earlier titles of this film were original script title Kansas City Jazz and working title Kansas City Heat.
• DVD Talk states that "According to Richard Schickel's book Clint Eastwood, [Blake] Edwards was originally signed to direct the film from his screenplay Kansas City Jazz. Problems arose over Edwards' insistence on casting his wife Julie Andrews in one of the female leads. Reynolds and Andrews had not gotten along very well during the production of The Man Who Loved Women (1983), and of course, Reynolds had major reservations about a reprise of previous problems. Eastwood supported Reynolds, and to make the long story short, Edwards quit the production. Eastwood brought in Joseph Stinson to rewrite the script..."