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Sweeney 2 is a British film of genre Drama with John Thaw
Sweeney 2 (1978)
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Add to a movie listSweeney 2 is a 1978 film made following the success of the 1977 film Sweeney! which was a spin-off from the popular British TV show The Sweeney. Some of the action is transferred from the usual London setting to Malta. Denholm Elliott 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 a role similar to that usually played by Garfield Morgan in the television episodes.
Synopsis
The plot concerns a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum.Actors
John Thaw
(Detective Inspector Jack Regan)
Dennis Waterman
(Detective Sergeant George Carter)
Denholm Elliott
(ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Jupp)
Marc Zuber
Frederick Treves
(McKyle)
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