Sweeney 2

Sweeney 2

Infobox Film
name = Sweeney 2
image_size = 150px
caption =
director = Tom Clegg
producer = Ted Childs
writer = Ian Kennedy Martin
Troy Kennedy Martin
narrator =
starring = John Thaw
Denis Waterman
Denholm Elliot
music = Tony Hatch
cinematography = Dusty Miller
editing = Chris Burt
distributor = EMI
released = April 1978
runtime = flagicon|UK 104 minutes
country = UK
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
preceded_by=Sweeney (1977)
followed_by=The Sweeney (2009)
imdb_id = 0078351

"Sweeney 2" is a 1978 film that is a sequel to the 1977 film "Sweeney" which was itself a spin-off from the popular British TV show "The Sweeney". Some of the action was transferred 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. Nigel Hawthorne appears as a bureaucratic superior officer, taking the role usually played by Garfield Morgan in the television episodes.

Plot

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away with an amount around the £60,000 mark. Armed with golden shotguns, they evaded Jack 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.

It was the most violent of the Sweeney stories. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people".

Cast

John Thaw - DI Jack Regan

Dennis Waterman - DS George Carter

Denholm Elliot - ex-Detective Chief Superintendant Jupp

Nigel Hawthorne - Detective Chief Inspector Dilke


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