18-483: [REDACTED] Look up squeeze in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Squeeze or squeezing may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] See also: The Squeeze (disambiguation) Squeeze (1980 film) , a New Zealand drama Squeeze (1997 film) , an American crime film "Squeeze" ( The X-Files ) , a TV episode "Squeeze" ( The Walking Dead ) ,
36-414: A Don Siegel thriller, and a gallery of underworld types as sharply and fully delineated as anything this side of Performance [1970]." Variety wrote: "The best to be said for it is that it's competently made. Keach suffers some nasty lumps and sundry humiliations, all in the cause of Edward Fox as a security firm exec whose wife and kid are hostages against a million-dollar-plus payoff. Carol White
54-422: A TV episode Music [ edit ] Squeeze (band) , an English rock band Squeeze (Squeeze album) , 1978 Squeeze (The Velvet Underground album) , 1973 Squeeze (Fiona album) , 1992 Squeeze (Sasami album) , 2022 "Squeeze", a song by Fifth Harmony from 7/27 , 2016 Squeeze, an earlier name for the 1970s band T.U.S.H. Science and technology [ edit ] Squeeze,
72-711: A bluff re-raise Other uses [ edit ] Squeeze paper , or squeeze, a reverse copy of an inscription Hug , a form of human endearment Squeeze, a Prohibition era alcoholic drink made from Sterno See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Squeeze All pages with titles containing Squeeze The Squeeze (disambiguation) Squeezed (disambiguation) Compression (physics) , applying balanced inward forces Squeeze bottle , to hold viscous fluids Squeezebox (disambiguation) Squeeze job , in oil and gas exploration Squeeze play (disambiguation) Squeeze theorem , in calculus Short squeeze and long squeeze , in
90-538: 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. . The classic Rolls-Royce driven by Stephen Boyd, is known as the most filmed individual Rolls-Royce motor car , seen in more than 35 films or TV series. Chassis no. SRH2971. Source www. imcdb.org Apted called it an "informed look at
108-441: A flat. Christine is left in a room with toys and a bed and rarely features in the action. Jill complies with the men’s demands for her to keep them occupied with cooking and playing backgammon, but eventually they intimidate her into stripping naked in front of them, echoing the way Naboth had been humiliated at Vic’s house. After the security van raid takes place, Jill and Christine are taken to be handed over to Foreman. Christine
126-644: 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. The film was shot in London in October 1976. Keach said Apted was "a wonderful and intelligent director" who cast the actor on the basis of his appearance in Conduct Unbecoming (1975). The producers of The Squeeze enlisted ex-gangster Bob Ramsey to act as
144-431: A version of Debian GNU/Linux SQ (program) , a 1980s file compression utility Sorenson Squeeze , a video transcoder (2001–2019) Barotrauma , injuries caused by a pressure difference Sports and games [ edit ] Squeeze (chess) or zugzwang , a chess tactic Squeeze play (baseball) , a type of sacrifice in baseball Squeeze play (bridge) , a tactic in contract bridge Squeeze play (poker) ,
162-693: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Squeeze (disambiguation) (Redirected from The Squeeze (disambiguation) ) The Squeeze may refer to these films: The Squeeze (1977 film) , a British gangster thriller The Squeeze (1980 film) , an Italian heist film The Squeeze (1987 film) , an American comedy The Squeeze (2015 film) , an American golfing drama See also [ edit ] Squeeze (disambiguation) The Main Squeeze (disambiguation) , band and album Topics referred to by
180-406: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Squeeze (1977 film) The Squeeze is a 1977 British gangster thriller directed by Michael Apted and starring Stacy Keach , Edward Fox , David Hemmings and Stephen Boyd . It was based on the 1974 novel Whose Little Girl Are You? by Bill James (as David Craig). The screenplay
198-404: Is released. Through circumstances, Vic’s daughter is also present and Naboth seizes her, threatening to shoot her if Jill is not released, and eventually she is. Naboth apprehends Vic. The plot relies on the relationships between the main characters including Jill’s history with Naboth, Foreman valuing his business more than his wife, Naboth and Keith’s past conflict as detective and criminal, and
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#1732797578377216-494: Is the terrorized wife, with the complication that she's also Keach's former spouse. David Hemmings is one of the thugs, and Stephen Boyd turns up as the gang mastermind with a resonant Irish brogue. He's an entertaining meanie and tackles the part with relish. The Leon Griffiths screenplay, however, doesn't afford much latitude for the others, excepting Freddie Starr in for comic relief as a reformed hood trying to reform his idol, Keach. The latter should be sympathetic but isn't – blame
234-697: The British underworld" and said Warner Bros considered the film "too indigenous." Keach said the film "didn't translate in America but it was well regarded and successful in England." The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: " The Squeeze is as neat and skilful a takeover bid as the English cinema has pulled off in a long time. Even if the plot tends to tie itself in knots working in all the emotional complexities, it provides action and moral ambiguity enough to stock
252-492: The character, not him ... pic has little in the way of style and no great surprises. It does, however, have a kind of gratuitous nasty tone." Leon Hunt found The Squeeze to be "a better sequel to Sweeney! (1977) than Sweeney 2 (1978) ...[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
270-589: The gang raid his security van full of cash. Foreman employs Naboth to help him recover Jill and Christine without doing any damage to his business reputation which he highly prizes. Naboth follows Foreman to a rendezvous and discovers that the gang leader, Keith, was someone he had successfully investigated when he was a police detective. He tracks the gang to Vic Smith’s house where he intends to rescue Jill and Christine but, instead, Keith recognises him and they beat him up, strip him naked, and send him home. Jill and Christine are detained by Keith, Barry, Des and Taf in
288-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Squeeze . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Squeeze&oldid=1173441814 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
306-552: The stock market SQUOZE , a 1958 punch-card data compression scheme Main Squeeze (disambiguation) , in music Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Squeeze . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Squeeze&oldid=1209391097 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
324-534: Was by Minder creator Leon Griffiths . Before the action depicted in the film begins, Jill had left Naboth who, despite his habitual overdrinking, had managed to keep custody of their two sons. He had lost his job as a police detective and become a private investigator. Jill had since married Foreman and lived with him and his daughter Christine. In the film, Keith Unslaw leads a gang of criminals including Barry and Taf and their driver Des. They kidnap Jill and Christine, using them to blackmail Foreman into helping
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