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Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Faces YEAR: 1975 Rating: ****
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Starting with a bombastic heist sweeping an entire London street, THE SWEENEY season two episode FACES is, like the pilot RINGER, another centering on a grungy and eclectic lot of sordid thieves that only seems to have a leader...
Here it's British actor/screenwriter Colin Welland who, despite looking like a chunky chipmunk and having played a passive vicar in STRAW DOGS, turns in one of the most formidable and in that, suspenseful performances when he screams, "OKAY SWEENEY!" at the top of his lungs, carrying a knife from his house to the adjoined junkyard headquarters, and giving Dennis Waterman's Carter good reason to run, and climb, quickly...
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Colin Welland in THE SWEENEY: FACES with Barry Stanton
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But Welland's intimidating Tober has to eventually cater to the bigger boss in British actor Barry Stanton, who'd later play one of the Flying Squad's drivers in SWEENEY 2, as a German terrorist forcing Tober deeper into the next big heist by threatening to kidnap his daughter, ultimately providing Welland — who'd later play a Bob Woodward type journalist in the first SWEENEY! film — a kind of gentle giant role carrying as much sympathy as intimidation...
And leading to another action-packed blowout (this time an ambush) where even otherwise office-set Chief Haskins pulls a gun along with John Thaw's tough main character Inspector Jack Regan who, like the other cops here, are usurped by the grungy crooks that, also including a paranoid Keith Buckley and John Cording as Welland's thuggy sidekick, make for terrific episode-stealing heavies.
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Colin Welland in THE SWEENEY: FACES with John Cording
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Colin Welland in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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Keith Buckley and a kitten in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: FACES with Tony Allen
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Colin Welland in THE SWEENEY: FACES with John Cording |
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Uncredited beauty in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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Dennis Waterman and Jeffrey Wickam in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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Garfield Morgan in THE SWEENEY: FACES |
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