Beware of the Jönsson Gang

Dec 4, 1981

1h 29m

★ 6.2

Overview

The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't take notice of them, and he's picked up by the mysterious banker Wall-Enberg Jr. instead. He wants Sickan to perform a burglary in Switzerland, in order to retrieve the famous Bedford Diamonds. Sickan does this but is fooled by Wall-Enberg and nearly gets caught. When he returns to Sweden and re-unites with his old gang members, he's set on revenge, both physically and psychologically...

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

SF Studios

Nordisk Film Denmark

Papphammar Produktion

Nordisk Tonefilm

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Cast

Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson

Gösta Ekman

Ragnar Vanheden

Ulf Brunnberg

Rocky Blom

Nils Brandt

Eivor

Siw Malmkvist

Crime Commissioner Svensson

Jan-Olof Strandberg

Detective Holm

Tomas Norström

Wall-Enberg

Per Grundén

Biffen

Weiron Holmberg

Bill

Bengt Stenberg

Doctor Schmetterlink

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