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The Offence is a 1973 British crime neo noir drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Trevor Howard and Vivien Merchant. The screenplay was by John Hopkins based on his 1968 stage play This Story of Yours. A police officer suffers a breakdown and kills a suspect.
Sep 12, 2019 · In The Offence, the first of Lumet’s two 1973 films about the justice system, the police officer is justifiably ground down into dust by an institution that seems like it has carried out a fair punishment, although it may have failed to offer a reasonable solution to the problem of sadists who populate it.
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The Offence is a 1973 British crime neo noir drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, based upon the 1968 stage play This Story of Yours by John Hopkins. It stars Sean Connery as police detective Johnson, who kills suspected child molester Kenneth Baxter while interrogating him.
A veteran British police inspector, Sgt. Johnson (Sean Connery), has grown increasingly disturbed by the rapes and murders he has investigated over the years. When he finds a young girl in the ...
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Jan 26, 1973 · The Offence: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen. A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
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Jan 11, 2023 · Starring Sean Connery as an embittered police detective on the hunt for a serial killer, The Offence gets some of its eerie power from the brutalist architecture of its new-town setting.
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A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
