Brannigan (1975)

Director

• Douglas Hickox

Starring

• John Wayne
• Richard Attenborough
• Judy Geeson
• John Vernon
• Mel Ferrer

Last On

12:30-14:45 Sun 22nd Dec 2019 130m
ITV4

Synopsis

In this crime drama, Richard Attenborough plays the Scotland Yard police officer whose job it is to make sure visiting American cop John Wayne plays things by the book. It's essentially a western transported to London, with red double-deckers instead of stagecoaches and hangovers from swinging London. It's also a blatant rip-off of Clint Eastwood's Coogan's Bluff and Dirty Harry, which Wayne bitterly regretted turning down after seeing the film. But Wayne's ten-gallon charisma carries the movie and Attenborough looks fairly gobsmacked by acting with such a living legend.