Sweeney 2

Mar 30, 1978

1h 44m

★ 6.5

They're back - tougher than ever!

Overview

The plot is set on 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. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded 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.

Genres

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Euston Films

Sweeney 2 Trailers

Cast

Det. Insp. Jack Regan

John Thaw

Det. Sgt. George Carter

Dennis Waterman

Ex-Det. Chief Superintendent Jupp

Denholm Elliott

Det. Chief Insp. Dilke

Nigel Hawthorne

Hill

Ken Hutchison

Mrs Hill

Anna Gaël

Llewellyn

Derrick O'Connor

Switchboard Girl

Georgina Hale

Haughton

Brian Hall

Jellyneck

James Warrior

Big John

Barry Stanton

Tom Daniels

John Alkin

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

7.8

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8.4

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8.5

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6.9

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7.4

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7.1

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6.4

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6.3

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6.2

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7.5

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3.5

For a Few Lousy Dollars

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7.9

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7.0

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6.7

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6.4

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6.6

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7.1

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7.3

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