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| Stacy Keach | ... | Jim Naboth | |
| David Hemmings | ... | Keith | |
| Edward Fox | ... | Foreman | |
| Stephen Boyd | ... | Vic | |
| Carol White | ... | Jill | |
| Freddie Starr | ... | Teddy | |
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Hilary Gasson | ... | Barbara |
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Rod Beacham | ... | Doctor Jenkins |
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Stewart Harwood | ... | Des |
| Alan Ford | ... | Taff | |
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Roy Marsden | ... | Barry |
| Leon Greene | ... | Commissionaire | |
| Maureen Sweeney | ... | Sauna Receptionist | |
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Lucinda Duckett | ... | Sharon |
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Alison Portes | ... | Christine |
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This Michael Apted-directed crime melodrama features Stacy Keach as Jim Naboth, a Scotland Yard cop on the skids, suffering from depression and alcoholism. He is summoned by Foreman (Edward Fox), a British security expert whose wife Jill (Carol White) and daughter are being held hostages by kidnappers until Foreman pays the crooks a million-dollar-plus ransom. Jim has to marshal his forces and regain his clarity to save Foreman's family. The pressure is even more intense for Jim, since Foreman's wife, Jill also happens to be his former spouse. Written by lament
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20 March 1977 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Abominável Extorsão See more »Company Credits
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Vic: Oh I don't know, you wiped your arse lately?
Taff: I wouldn't have thought so, not by the state of his underpants!
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Performed by The Doobie Brothers
Music and lyrics by Tom Johnston
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
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The Squeeze (1977) was the first ever cinema thriller movie directed by British director Michael Apted. Apted would later go on to direct several other thrillers such as Enigma (2001), Enough (2002), Blink (1993), Thunderheart (1992), Gorky Park (1983), Class Action (1991), Extreme Measures (1996) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). See more »Goofs
Green Mini seen parked in the robbery zone mysteriously vanishes after the motorcycle cop is shot before the robbers getaway with their loot. See more »Quotes
Jim Naboth: Would you mind if I sit down Vic?Vic: Oh I don't know, you wiped your arse lately?
Taff: I wouldn't have thought so, not by the state of his underpants!
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LISTEN TO THE MUSICPerformed by The Doobie Brothers
Music and lyrics by Tom Johnston
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
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Stacy Keach. David Hemmings. Edward Fox. Stephen Boyd. Carol White. And Freddie Starr. Made in 1977 by Michael Apted, they rarely show films like The Squeeze on telly anymore and at time of writing, it's yet to even receive a DVD release. And this is outrageous really because, grim and seedy as you like, it remains one of the most underrated and authentic Brit-crime thrillers to ever leave its grubby prints on the screen.
A large part of that authenticity lies with its gritty locations: a cigarette smoke-fugged London Underground, dismal pubs and Soho 'massage parlours', and a pre-gentrified Battersea and Clapham, vividly portrayed in birds-eye view. Familiar currency to a certain iconic 1970s British cop show...