Beverly Hills Cop II
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Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 action film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. This is the sequel to the 1984 hit Beverly Hills Cop and was followed by Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994.
The sequel is set about two years after the orignal. Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills and finds much has changed. Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggert (John Ashton) are contending with a temperamental new police chief, Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), and trying to solve a series of violent robberies, known as the Alphabet Robberies for the monogrammed envelopes the assailants leave at the scene. Bogomil is shot by Karla Fry (Brigitte Nielsen), the chief henchwoman of Maxwell Dent (Jurgen Prochnow), a businessman secretly dealing arms to Central America. Fry also leads the robberies.
Paramount had planned a television series based on the 1984 original. Eddie Murphy refused the series but was willing to do a sequel.[1] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/05/13/beverly_hills_cop_2_1987_dvd_review.shtml)
Beverly Hills Cop II earned an estimated $187 million dollars at the US box office.