I don't know if he was hospitalized, but it was a serious thing for a man of his age, particularly one who had been working on one lung for the past 9 or 10 years. It's possible that the illness in 1974 damaged a valve in his heart, necessitating surgery in 1978.
Posts from ColeThornton in thread „Brannigan (1975)“
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Also, I liked seeing Duke in the midst of it all in a city that he could not have been very familiar with.
I think Duke probably was quite familiar with London. There are pictures at allposters.com showing him in London in 1956 and 1960. Prior to making Brannigan he had visited to appear on Parkinson, it was during that visit that he caught pneumonia. -
A highly entertaining, feel good cop drama with a solid supporting cast, not of course in the same league as Dirty Harry or The French Connection but one that can be enjoyed time and again. Personally I thought this was a better film than McQ. I wish that Duke had played a policeman a few years earlier, but even at this late stage of his career he managed to pull it off.
8/10.
