Law, disorder and cynicism in the ’70s
Two recent Blu-ray releases highlight very different attitudes to the crime thriller in the ’70s: Robert Culp’s Hickey and Boggs and Douglas Hickox’s […]
Review: Brannigan (1975)
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon,
John Wayne
Richard Attenborough
Judy Geeson
Mel Ferrer
John Vernon
Plot: Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.
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