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: A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
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