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TIL After screening '48 Hours' Paramount wanted to fast track another project from the same team. Quickly, director Walter Hill thought of what he loved in movies in his teens like old cars, neon, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, and motorcycles. That list became the movie 'Streets of Fire'.

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