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The Offence

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United Kingdom, United States · 1973
Rated R · 1h 52m
Director Sidney Lumet
Starring Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen
Genre Crime, Drama

This taut, murky neo-noir follows a burned-out British police detective who is deeply affected by the murders, rapes, and violent crimes he has investigated over his twenty-year career. The officer, who is plagued by visions of violence, finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

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An interesting but not entirely rewarding inversion on Lumet’s continued study of law enforcement.

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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

Few genre films come as close to entering the abyss as Sidney Lumet’s The Offence, which effectively plays out as one elongated interrogation both of a single witness and the tortured psyche of Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery).

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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A splendid, unjustly neglected 1973 British film in which Sean Connery, at his very best under Sidney Lumet's direction, plays a veteran police sergeant haunted by years of contact with terrible crimes and on the brink of a total breakdown. [27 May 1990, p.10]

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