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Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2 Plot
Directed by Tom Clegg The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both
Produced by Ted Childs violent and successful, strangely getting away each time
with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leav-
Written by Ian Kennedy Martin
ing behind cash in excess of this sum.
Troy Kennedy Martin
The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get
Starring John Thaw away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in
Denis Waterman the film: "I’ve never seen so many dead people". Armed
Denholm Elliot
with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan
Music by Tony Hatch and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan
finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superin-
Cinematography Dusty Miller
tendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack
Editing by Chris Burt wouldn’t testify in court for him.
Distributed by EMI
Release date(s) April 1978 (1978-04) Cast
Running time 104 minutes • John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan
• Dennis Waterman as Detective Sergeant George
Country United Kingdom Carter
Language English • Denholm Elliot as ex-Detective Chief Superintendent
Jupp
Sweeney 2 is a 1978 film that is a sequel to the 1977 film • Ken Hutchison as Hill
Sweeney! which was itself a spin-off from the popular Bri- • Frederick Treves as McKyle
tish TV show The Sweeney. Some of the action was trans- • Nigel Hawthorne as Detective Chief Inspector Dilke
ferred from the usual London setting to Malta. Denholm
Elliot appears as a corrupt ex-officer, who asks his former
subordinates to take down a gang of armed bank robbers.
External links
Nigel Hawthorne appears as a bureaucratic superior offi- • Sweeney 2 at the Internet Movie Database
cer, taking the role usually played by Garfield Morgan in
the television episodes.
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Categories:
• 1978 films
• British films
• English-language films
• 1970s crime films
• British crime films
• British action films
• British thriller films
• Sequel films
• Films based on television series
• Crime film stubs
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