The Reckoning is a 1970 British drama film released by Columbia Pictures directed by Jack Gold and starring Nicol Williamson, Ann Bell, Rachel Roberts and Zena Walker.

One morning, while Mick is trying to save his boss, Hazlitt, from mistakes and sagging sales, he convinces him to persuade the company to make computers, something they had rejected.

After questioning his mother, his sister, the priest and Dr. Carolan, the family physician, Mick visits the Irish social hall to speak with Cocky Burke, his father's best friend.

Cocky says that John Joe, a popular amateur balladeer, had a heart attack after English "Teddy boys" started a fight because he was singing an Irish rebel song, then punched and kicked him.

Angered by Rosemary's reluctance to attend the funeral, Mick returns to the hall but is spirited away by Joyce, Dr. Carolan's nurse, when police break up a fight.

Soon Jones, the "Teddy" identified as John Joe's attacker, arrives, prompting Mick to savagely beat him with a pipe, despite his pleas for mercy.

Subsequently, as a reconciled Mick and Rosemary are on a motorway, he recklessly speeds past a barrier and narrowly misses hitting an oncoming truck.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Bofors Gun, the first collaboration between Jack Gold, John McGrath and Nicol Williamson, was serious, memorable, compelling.

In that film, as in Nicol Williamson's work as a whole, an essential element was the sense of an inner despair, self-directed and self-destructive in its intensity, but with a certain tragic dimension regardless of the particular milieu.

In this sense, The Reckoning is a film of echoes: as Mick Marler, Williamson plays a very similar role, and again Jack Gold follows the career and explores the motives of a man incapable of living in harmony with society.

"[4] Leslie Halliwell said: "Interesting melodrama of a man disgusted with both bourgeois and working-class values; slickly made and fast-moving.