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Sweeney! is a 1977 British thriller film made as a spin-off from the television show The Sweeney, which ran from 1974 and 1978. It was released on Region 2 DVD in 2007. A sequel Sweeney 2 was released the following year.
The film followed the adventures of DI Regan and DS Carter as they became embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the government, Charles Baker (Ian Bannen) is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it. Baker is the rising star of government, regarded a future prime minister, who is closely controlled by his urbane, manipulative American press secretary Elliot McQueen (Barry Foster).
When Regan investigates the mysterious death of a prostitute 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 and British security services. The outcome of the film was similar to that of the Profumo affair, though with a typical Sweeney bittersweet ending.
Actors: Paul Trijbits (producer), John McKenna (miscellaneous crew), Ulrich Felsberg (producer), Nigel Thomas (producer), George Fenton (composer), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Cillian Murphy (actor), Ken Loach (director), Liam Cunningham (actor), Sean McGinley (actor), Andrew Lowe (producer), Roger Allam (actor), Frank O'Sullivan (actor), Jonathan Morris (editor), Neil Calder (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
Keywords: 1920s, abuse, ambush, ammunition, apology, armored-vehicle, arrest, arsenal, band, bandanaActors: Mel Lewis (composer), Leigh Scott (actor), Sherri Strain (producer), Leigh Scott (producer), Leigh Scott (actor), David Rimawi (producer), Eric Spudic (actor), Griff Furst (actor), David Michael Latt (producer), Chriss Anglin (actor), Christopher DeMaci (actor), Christopher DeMaci (actor), Justin Jones (actor), Mike Watt (writer), Amanda Barton (actress),
Plot: After killing four persons in his home with a shotgun, Dee Travis claims that he had accidentally ingested an experimental biotoxin that the company Blackthorn where he worked was researching. Travis is sent visibly ill to the Harwood Maximum Security Prison and the Security Officer Sweeny sends the inmate to the infirmary. Meanwhile the CDC Agent Samantha Beckett comes to the prison to interview Travis and is received by Warden Mahler. While they are having a conversation, they are informed that Travis has been transferred to the solitary confinement and his infected blood has caused an outbreak among the prisoners and guards. Samantha calls the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the responsible advises the warden that the prison is in quarantine.
Keywords: bitten-in-the-throat, blood, blood-splatter, evisceration, flesh-eating-zombie, gore, guts-ripped-out, helicopter, intestines, prisonActors: Rodney Dangerfield (actor), William McNamara (actor), Michael Lutz (actor), Angie McCright (writer), Ian O'Shea (actor), Angie McCright (actress), Samuel Homan (actor), Sarah Foster (actress), Wendy Anne Grace (actress), Monna Barrett (producer), Juliette Rahill (actress), Ross J. Hegarty (actor), Brian Bennett (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Fionnula Flanagan (actress), James Hickey (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew), Sean McGinley (actor), Eamonn Hunt (actor), Jim Reeve (producer), Simon Channing Williams (producer), Brendan McCarthy (producer), Ruth Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Peadar Lamb (actor), Mal Whyte (actor), Lorna Marie Mugan (costume designer), Dermot Diskin (editor), Stephen Rennicks (composer), Katie Holly (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Robert Donner (actor), Ellen Corby (actress), Ralph Waite (actor), Lee Rich (producer), Royce D. Applegate (actor), Helen Kleeb (actress), Earl Hamner Jr. (writer), Earl Hamner Jr. (producer), Judy Norton (actress), Mary Jackson (actress), Mary Beth McDonough (actress), Richard Gilliland (actor), Alexander Courage (composer), Jon Walmsley (actor), Joe Conley (actor),
Plot: Third Waltons reunion movie has most of the family split up on the days approaching Thanksgiving, c. 1946. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with John-Boy recovering from a case of writers block in New York followed by Jason now a struggling musician as well as John Walton whom tries to get everyone together for the special event for Elizabeth, while newlyweds Erin and Paul plan to move out of the Walton homestead.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, family-reunion, sequel, southern-u.s., thanksgiving, tv-series-reunionActors: James Stewart (actor), Ralph Volkie (actor), Bob Steele (actor), John Carradine (actor), James Nolan (actor), Hugh O'Brian (actor), Gregg Palmer (actor), Henry Slate (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Richard Boone (actor), Scatman Crothers (actor), Bill McKinney (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), John Wayne (actor),
Plot: John Bernard Books, a gunfighter approaching his 58th birthday, finds that he has rectal cancer and two months to live. He takes a room with Bond Rogers and her son, Gillom, to wait until death comes. Of course, his very presence starts off events in the town. The Marshal comes, prepared to die in a shootout, Gillom tries to idolize him, Bond first is disgusted and then pities him. Then, realizing that he will die in great pain, he comes up with an idea to go out with a bang.
Keywords: 1900s, aging, ambush, anger, archive-footage, attempted-murder, attempted-robbery, bar-fight, bar-shootout, barberActors: Friedrich W. Bauschulte (actor), Fritz Rasp (actor), Eugene O'Neill (writer), Thomas Braut (actor), Werner Völger (director), Werner Völger (writer), Eva Katharina Schulz (actress), Marianne Wentzel (writer), Eva-Maria Pape (writer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Alvy Moore (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), George White (editor), Harold Fong (actor), Anthony Eisley (actor), Brianne Murphy (miscellaneous crew), Ken Mayer (actor), Joy Harmon (actress), Adele Claire (actress), Lee Krieger (actor), David Whorf (actor), William O. Brown (director), William O. Brown (producer), Ralph Nanalei (actor), Jo Hanson (composer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Reed (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Steve Pendleton (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Forbes Murray (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Edward Earle (actor), James Flavin (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), George Chandler (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Hamilton (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), El Brendel (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Hal E. Chester (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), David Gorcey (actor), J. Anthony Hughes (actor),
Plot: A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
Keywords: lieutenant, little-tough-guys, policeman, post-office, robbery, sequel, sergeant