Sweeney!

Sweeney!
Film Poster
Directed byDavid Wickes
Written byRanald Graham
Produced byTed Childs
executive
Nat Cohen
Starring
CinematographyDusty Miller
Edited byChris Burt
Music byDenis King
Production
company
Distributed byEMI Films
Release date
  • January 1977 (1977-01)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£1.4 million[1] or £250,000[2]

Sweeney! is a 1977 British action crime drama film and extension of the ITV television series The Sweeney which aired on ITV from 1975 to 1978. The film did well enough at the box office that a sequel, Sweeney 2, was released in cinemas in 1978.[3]

  1. ^ Sweeney at David Wickes Production
  2. ^ Harper, Sue (2011). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780748654260.
  3. ^ SWEENEY! Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 43, Iss. 504, (Jan 1, 1976): 200.