Two careers were made--or re-made--by this movie: Eddie Murphy's and Ronny Cox's. By now in his mid forties but well preserved, tall, fair Ronny Cox plays the police commander Lt. Bogomil as an idealized father figure: strict but fair, a loving authority as a father is supposed to be.
"In Beverly Hills we do things by the book," he tells Axel Foley, showing this refugee from the Detroit ghetto's dirt and chaos a different world, a clean, orderly world where the police are your friend and you can rely on their integrity.
This is an essential element in the success of this film pitched at Blacks and the young, both groups who hunger for the father they often lack in real life.
Review of Beverly Hills Cop
