CREDITS BEVERLY HILLS COP, 1984 dir: Martin Brest Eddie Murphy Judge Reinhold Steven Berkoff Lisa Eilbacher Ronny Cox

Eddie Murphyís first outing as Axel Foley helps out the Motortown economy by writing off any number of cars in the opening chase through picturesque Detroit.

Once in Beverly Hills we get the establishing tourist shots of the Beverly Hills Hotel and Rodeo Drive, before Foley bullshits his way into the fictional ëBeverly Palms Hotelí, supposedly on 'Wilshire Boulevard'.

In reality, you'll find the hotel downtown. It's the 700-room Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, a smart Spanish-Italian Renaissance landmark, not in Beverly Hills at all but downtown LA. Built in 1923, itís been a frequent movie location over the years (Beverly Hills Cop III returns to the Biltmore), from The Sting and Ghostbusters to Independence Day and Daredevil. It hosted the Oscars, too, during the thirties. Foley pulls off the banana-in-the-exhaust-pipe gag opposite the Biltmore, on Pershing Square.

Upmarket cop station: City Hall, Beverly Hills

Being Beverly Hills, the cop station is no ordinary precinct, but the splendid 1932 Spanish-Baroque Beverly Hills City Hall, North Crescent Drive at Santa Monica Boulevard.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley bluffs his way in to see maitland: Athenaeum, 551 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena

The exclusive club, in which Foley embarrasses drug lord Maitland (Steven Berkoff), is the Athenaeum, the dining club of the California Institute of Technology, at 551 South Hill Avenue in Pasadena, seen in plenty of other movies including The X-Files and True Romance.

Maitland's estate:East Channel Road, Santa Monica canyon

Maitlandís estate, site of the shoot-out finale, is 609 East Channel Road in the Santa Monica Canyon.