CONSTABULARY COMBOS FROM A OTHER MOVIES

Bon Cop Bad Cop was hardly the first movie to pair unlikely police officers, but it did provide a uniquely Canadian take on the genre. Here are just a few other famous constabulary combinations.

Black Cop/ White Cop: First seen in 1967’s In the Heat of the Night with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger; the 1970 sequel took as its title the film’s most famous line, “They call me Mr. Tibbs!” It was given a western spin in Blazing Saddles with Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in 1974, a cop/robber version eight years later with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs., and a science- fiction twist with 1997’s Men in Black, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Murphy also made Beverly Hills Cop, a kind of East Cop/ West Cop.

Earth Cop/Alien Cop: 1988’s Alien Nation paired Earther Matthew Sykes (James Caan) with off worlder Sam Francisco ( Mandy Patinkin). A short- lived TV series and a string of TV movies followed. A big- screen remake is reportedly in the works.

Yankee Cop/ Irish Cop: A truly excellent comedy, 2011’s The Guard featured Brendan Gleeson as a smalltown officer on the Emerald Isle, and Don Cheadle as an FBI agent on the trail of drug traffickers. Gleeson at one point tells the American: “I’m Irish; racism is part of my culture.”

Human Cop/ Robot Cop: Karl Urban plays the man and Michael Ealy the DRN model android ( Dorian) in Almost Human, a short- lived TV series from 2013, set in a crimeridden future some 30 years hence.

North Cop/South Cop: Korea got in on the action this year with Confidential Assignment, starring Hyun Bin as a dashing North Korean detective, and Yoo Hae- jin as his unkempt Southern partner, searching for a Northern defector with stolen currency- printing plates. Short Cop/ Tall Cop: 2015’s Hot Pursuit tried to wring laughs from the fact that its costars are 5- foot-1 ( Reese Witherspoon) and five- foot-seven plus heels ( Sofia Vergara). It was a stretch.