Mar 5, 2021
Sweeney! (1977)
"I'd like to make a statement, sir. I have reason to believe that there is a high-level conspiracy which is responsible for several so far unexplained deaths, and of which I myself have been a victim."
"Is that it?"
#Sweeney!#the sweeney#british cinema#films i done watched#1977#Ian Kennedy Martin#Ranald Graham#David Wickes#John Thaw#Dennis Waterman#Barry Foster#Ian Bannen#Colin Welland#Diane Keen#Michael Coles#Joe Melia#Brian Glover#Lynda Bellingham#Morris Perry#Bernard Kay#Nick Brimble#Paul Angelis#Takes the cast crew and format of the series and dials it all up to 11 with paranoid conspiracy thrills and extra nudity and graphic#Violence. For all that it's still quite a lot of fun and very recognisably The Sweeney; perhaps the most successful translation from small#Screen to big of any of the 70s ITV properties. The cast is a dream; an enviable who's who of Brit acting talent which suggests there must#Been more allure to this than just money (Euston films had money but they didn't have money money): perhaps it was just good fun? I mean#I can't imagine Colin Welland (already an award winning and respected screenwriter at this point) was so strapped for cash that he HAD to#Do this film and get splattered by a stray parcel bomb; I'm guessing he was in it for the laughs. Like much of the supporting cast he also#Did an episode of the TV show; and a lot of the more familiar background faces from the series can be spotted milling about in the police#Station scenes. Garfield Morgan however is very notable by his absence; he'd have a reduced role when the series returned in 78 too
