Sweeney! (1977) on Netflix
NR19771h 38mActionCrimeDramaThriller
When an informant insists his girlfriend's death was no suicide, Flying Squad detective Jack Regan looks into it. The case draws him into a political conspiracy, and he is suspended from duty.
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When an informant tells Detective Inspector Jack Regan that his girlfriend's death was not the suicide it was called, Regan looks into the case himself. He works London's Flying Squad alongside Detective Sergeant George Carter, and the inquiry leads him toward a political scandal. In the government, Charles Baker is close to securing a large oil deal with OPEC, guided by his American press secretary, Elliott McQueen. Regan is forced to drink, then drives while intoxicated into a crowded market, and is suspended from duty. Cut off from the force, he keeps working the case, with figures in the police and the security services watching him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sweeney! (1977)
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- David Wickes said Sweeney! made a 1000% profit for EMI Films, £10 for every pound spent, the studio's most profitable film in years, and on the back of it EMI could afford to make The Deer Hunter (1978).
- Director David Wickes said Euston Films were reluctant to make a movie until he persuaded them it was worth it by making an X-rated film that could show things the television series could not.
- The film echoes the events of the Profumo Scandal, which had rocked British politics more than a decade earlier, although the film's premise is much more violent.
- The script is credited to Ranald Graham, but director David Wickes said he and Ted Childs entirely rewrote it, developing a plot about OPEC and big business.
