- Source: Sweeney
- Source: Sweeney!
Sweeney may refer to:
People
Sweeney (name)
Clan Sweeney, an Irish clan of Scottish origin
Places
Sweeney Mountains, Palmer Land, Antarctica
Sweeney Ridge, a national park in California, United States
Arts and entertainment
The Madness of Sweeney, a mediaeval Irish legend
Sweeney an Australian bush ballad (1893) by Henry Lawson
Sweeney Agonistes, an abandoned "Aristophanic Melodrama" by T. S. Eliot; also two poems, "Sweeney Erect" and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" from Eliot's Poems (1920)
The Sweeney, a British television series
Sweeney!, a spin-off film of the TV show
Sweeney 2, the 1978 sequel
The Sweeney (2012 film)
The Sweeney: Paris, an alternative name for the French film The Squad (2015 film), a remake of the 2012 film
The Sweeney, British band formed by Murray Torkildsen
Other uses
London slang for the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police Service
See also
Sweeny (disambiguation)
Justice Sweeney (disambiguation)
Sweeney! is a 1977 British action crime drama film and extension of the ITV television series The Sweeney which aired on ITV from 1975 to 1978. The film did well enough at the box office that a sequel, Sweeney 2, was released in cinemas in 1978.
Plot
Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) become embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the British government, Charles Baker (Ian Bannen), is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it. Baker is a rising star in the government, regarded as a future prime minister, and he is closely controlled by his urbane, manipulative American press secretary, Elliot McQueen (Barry Foster).
That night, Regan is forced to drink alcohol, and completely intoxicated drives his car into a crowded market. The following day, he is suspended from duty for at least two weeks.
When a sex worker (played by Lynda Bellingham) dies in mysterious circumstances, Regan investigates as a favour to one of his informants. He becomes aware that Baker and McQueen might be involved. A spate of killings follow - which sees Regan take on both the criminals and the hierarchy of the Metropolitan Police Service and the British security services.
Ultimately, despite having an injured foot, Regan returns from his suspension and he is reunited with DS Carter.
At Tilbury, Essex, Regan and Carter gather around a group of men with Elliot McQueen due to be arrested, but McQueen is shot dead by a sniper riding in a black taxi. DS Carter shouts the final words, "They didn’t kill him; you did!"
Cast
John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan
Dennis Waterman as Detective Sergeant George Carter
Barry Foster as Elliot Wainwright McQueen
Ian Bannen as Charles Baker MP
Colin Welland as Francis ("Frank") Chadwick
Diane Keen as Bianca Hamilton
Michael Coles as Johnson
Joe Melia as Ronnie Brent
Brian Glover as Mac
Lynda Bellingham as Janice Wyatt
Morris Perry as Flying Squad Commander
Michael Latimer as P.P.S.
Johnny Shannon as Scotland Yard Duty Sgt.
Nadim Sawalha as Chairman of the Oil Producers' Conference
Production
Sweeney! was made by Euston Films, who also produced the television series.
Euston had been planning a feature film version for some time: this movie was part of a £6 million six-film programme announced two years earlier, in 1975, by Nat Cohen of EMI Films.
Filming was relatively quick and inexpensive, using cast and crew from the series.
The movie was released in 1977, following the conclusion of the show's third season on television, as a money-making big-screen outing for what had become an extremely popular series. In the 1970s it was common for television shows to be given cinematic releases, amongst which were some of the biggest box office hits of the decade. Most of these, however, had been comedies - Sweeney! was an attempt to make what the film magazine Sight & Sound described a more "internationally marketed action-packed screen adventure."
Several minor characters in the film had previously appeared in the television series. However, Garfield Morgan, who played Regan's boss, Haskins, in the TV show (but who would be largely absent from the final series on TV the following year) did not appear. As with the television series, a large amount of the filming took place on location (as on all Euston Films productions). The film includes some nudity, and a great deal of graphic violence, which had been impossible to do for a television audience, hence the picture was released in the United Kingdom with an X-certificate rating (over-18s only).
The film echoes the events of the Profumo Scandal which had rocked British politics more than a decade before, although the film has a much more violent premise. It also featured the major international issues of energy policy and oil usage.
Reception
The film was praised for capturing the spirit and setting of the original TV series. It was successful enough for a sequel the following year, Sweeney 2, which saw some of the action set in the Mediterranean.
Announcing the sequel, Barry Spikings of EMI said the first film "was successful, so we're helping fill the demand by making another one".
References
External links
Sweeney! at IMDb
Sweeney! at BFI
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