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| Geraldine James and George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2 |
THE SWEENEY episode PAY OFF combines two of the British cop show's two most wielded devices: the woman in need and the band of backstabbing thieves, in which this dame is part of, working at the low-rent casino for, and she meets Dennis Waterman's Carter in what seems just another of many one-night-stands when it's anything but...
Instead, classic-beauty Geraldine James is trying to get some inside information about her possibly dead or perhaps just hiding-out-with-the-stolen-cash ex-partner, member of a violent gang of forest-fleeing thieves wearing creepy animal masks during the boisterous cold open/prologue...
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Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off
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Their identities are soon revealed to be meticulous
leader Ken Kitsen and his square-jawed assistant David Ellison while
future RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK ship captain George Harris has the
most important side-heavy role...
Weeding-out information from the girl who's taking Carter for a ride that, inside her plush two-story apartment, he doesn't mind having... that results in the same rural wilderness location but with more specific shotgun-blasting, loot-seeking action flanking one of the more noticeably-noirish, pulp-inspired episodes.
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| From THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with David Ellison and Ken Kitson |
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Geraldine James in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off
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| Dennis Waterman and John Thaw in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| James Warrior (before playing PC Jellyneck) in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| Geraldine James in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with David Ellison and Ken Kitson
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| Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| Geraldine James in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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Geraldine James in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with Dennis Waterman
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| John Thaw in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with Geraldine James and Dennis Waterman
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George Harris and Karen Allen in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
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| George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off |
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| THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with Geraldine James |
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| THE SWEENEY: Pay Off with Geraldine James |
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