Summary
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Details
Release Date: March 30, 1978
Runtime: 104 minutes
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Original Language: EN
Rating: ⭐ 6.1/10 (11 votes)
The Sweeney Movie Collection

Sweeney!
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.

Sweeney 2
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.

Regan
Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.

The Sweeney
Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
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Cast

John Thaw
Det. Insp. Jack Regan

Dennis Waterman
Det. Sgt. George Carter

Denholm Elliott
Ex-Det. Chief Superintendent Jupp

Nigel Hawthorne
Det. Chief Insp. Dilke

Ken Hutchison
Hill

Anna Gaël
Mrs Hill

Derrick O'Connor
Llewellyn

Georgina Hale
Switchboard Girl

Brian Hall
Haughton

James Warrior
Jellyneck

Barry Stanton
Big John

John Alkin
Tom Daniels

Guy Standeven
Logan

Johnny Shannon
Harry

Brian Gwaspari
White

Patrick Malahide
Major Conway

Lewis Fiander
Goran

Michael J. Jackson
Soames

John Lyons
Mead

George Innes
Doyle

Michael O'Hagan
Doyle

George Innes
Pete Beale

Roddy McMillan
Colly

Matthew Scurfield
Jefferson

Jim McManus
Barman

Leon Lissek
Cardona Alexandros

Seretta Wilson
Girl

Stefan Gryff
Nino

John Flanagan
Willard

John Vine
PC

Jill Goldston
Accident Victim (uncredited)


