Sweeney 2

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Sweeney 2
Directed by	Tom Clegg
Produced by	Ted Childs
Written by	Ian Kennedy Martin Troy Kennedy Martin
Starring	John Thaw Denis Waterman Denholm Elliot
Music by	Tony Hatch
Cinematography	Dusty Miller
Editing by	Chris Burt
Distributed by	EMI
Release date(s)	April 1978
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Preceded by	Sweeney (1977)
Followed by	The Sweeney (2009)
IMDb profile

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 the Mediterranean. 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.

[edit] 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 £60,00 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 bodies".

[edit] Cast

John Thaw - DI Jack Regan

Dennis Waterman - DS George Carter

Denholm Elliot - ex-Detective Chief Superintendant

Nigel Hawthorne - Detective Chief Inspector