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: ⭐ 6.5/10 (10 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
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)