This is the first John Wayne film I've seen, and I enjoyed it. It hangs on the coattails of Dirty Harry with Wayne playing renegade cop Jim Brannigan. Even in London he plays by his own rules, carries his piece, and generally acts American against the stiff upper lip of Scotland Yard. It's very well crafted with time given to ransom drop-offs and chases and what-not, where you can bathe in 70s Britain. The pub brawl is a tad ludicrous and it would have benefitted from being rated R, but generally it's a very entertaining film, particularly the Tower Bridge-culminating car chase and the following-the-money sequence. It was also nice to see a young Tony Robinson pop up in a small role.