The Squeeze is a 1977 British gangster thriller directed by Michael Apted and starring Stacy Keach, Edward Fox, David Hemmings and Stephen Boyd.

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 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 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.

[7] The producers of The Squeeze enlisted ex-gangster Bob Ramsey to act as 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.

"[7] 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 a Don Siegel thriller, and a gallery of underworld types as sharply and fully delineated as anything this side of Performance [1970].

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.

[4] 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 a drunken ex-copper...