his wife, Naboth and Keith’s past conflict as detective and criminal, and a sub-plot involving Naboth’s relationship with his friend Teddy. It leaves open the possibility that Foreman was in on the kidnap plot as a means of stealing the company’s money and humiliating Jill. Cast Stacy Keach as ex-detective Jim Naboth Freddie Starr as Naboth’s friend Teddy Carol White as Jill Alison Portes as Jill’s daughter Christine Edward Fox as Jill’s husband Foreman Kidnap gang David Hemmings as Keith Stephen Boyd as Vic Roy Marsden as Barry Stewart Harwood as Des Alan Ford as Taff Other characters Hilary Gasson as Barbara Rod Beacham as Dr. Jenkins Leon Greene as Commissionaire Lucinda Duckett as Sharon Marjie Lawrence as Beryl Steve Jones (extra) Production The film was shot in London in October 1976. Keach had lived and worked in London for many years. He says Apted was "a wonderful and intelligent director" who cast the actor on the basis of his appearance in Conduct Unbecoming. The producers of The Squeeze enlisted an ex-gangster called Bob Ramsey to act as a contact between the film unit and the local underworld to cut down on harassment, due to location shooting in rather undesirable areas where criminals were operating. Local people in the area were hired as extras. Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones accidentally became an extra in the film. Reception Leon Hunt found The Squeeze to be "a better sequel to Sweeney! than Sweeney 2 ...[with] its "superbly drawn and vividly played villains". Sight and Sound said that Apted "makes a fair fist of transferring the dirty cop thriller to Notting Hill" with "real world flair", but it found "Stacey Keach's problems as a drunken ex-copper ... unengaging." Keach said the film "didn't translate in America but it was well regarded and successful in England." Footnotes External links 1977 films 1970s crime thriller films British crime thriller films Films directed by Michael Apted 1970s English-language films 1970s British films