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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 10415
Released: October 2, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Fortunately, John Wayne had two vastly more interesting feature films (Rooster Cogburn and The Shootist) left in him following this disposable, leaden 1975 fish-out-of-water story. Wayne phones in his performance as a Chicago cop, Jim Brannigan, whose hunt for a fugitive in London is mostly an excuse for cross-cultural conflicts and comedy. Richard Attenborough adds local color as a Scotland Yard detective who partners with the Duke, and Judy Geeson plays a lovely, liberated constable who won't brook Brannigan's ingrained sexism. The by-the-numbers script is more pacifying for diehard Wayne fans than exciting to everyone, and the film looks embarrassingly ornamental with its naked display of touristy backdrops. Still, Brannigan is a slick tribute to the staying power of an American icon. --Tom Keogh
Brannigan Reviews:
awsome!!!!!!!!! 
2009-11-11 - Great Duke film. Not as good as Mcq, but a good movie. 1 of only 2 movies where the Duke plays a cop.
John Wayne being John Wayne. 
2009-06-28 - A lot of fun to watch. If your kids have never seen the Duke.
This is a good one to start them on. No one can play parts like
these better than John Wayne. Great addition the my John Wayne
library.
Putting the UK in Duke 
2008-06-26 - Wayne's second try at following Clint's lead from the sagebrush to a modern urban setting is basically a retread of Coogan's Bluff and it's not bad. There are still some right-wing complaints about civil liberties, but the tone is more amiable than McQ. Everything's pretty diverting until we get to the drawn-out "funny" bare-knuckle brawl that doesn't work here any better than it did a few years earlier in The Undefeated.
Not one of the better films...but it IS the Duke!
2008-06-09 - Well, I'm a big John Wayne fan. He was and remains one of the great American icons. Brannigan is not a great film, although one of his final films; it is a necessary addition to complete one's collection. But don't blame the Duke: the writing is bad, the direction is poor, the editing is mediocre and the story is a bore. Yes, the Duke is very old, but he is still great. It's just a poor movie. 'McQ' is far better all around. Look at 'Brannigan' as a film trip to Joly Ol' England with John Wayne.
Brannigan
2007-11-28 - Happy to find this Good & Humious story for a hard Cop from the States In England. It is a good addition to my John Wayne Collection.
