The Offence (Blu-ray) R
After 20 years, what detective-sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sean Connery & Trevor Howard | |
Performer: | Ian Bannen, Vivien Merchant, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark, Ronald Radd & John Hallam | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | John Victor Smith | |
Screenplay by | John Hopkins | |
Composition by | Harrison Birtwistle | |
Cinematography by | Gerry Fisher | |
Art Direction by | John Clark | |
Produced by | Denis O'Dell |
Entertainment Reviews:
This unrelentingly somber policier inaugurates a newfound force in Lumet's work.
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CinePassion
Rating: 3/5 --
Gritty police programmes are now so much a part of the TV landscape that it is hard to realise that a feature like The Offence once packed quite a punch.
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Radio Times
Lumet succeeds in establishing a bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere. And Connery manages to make his character sympathetic...
Sight and Sound
Embedded in a 'realistic' police scene, dialogue and situations now have a ring of arty melodrama. Fascinating, nevertheless, with outstanding performances from Connery and (especially) Bannen.
Time Out
A great disappointment.
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The Spectator
It's highly theatrical -- perhaps just a little too highly theatrical for the more or less realistic context -- but it's been staged by Lumet for maximum effect.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A fascinating and intense psychological thriller. This is one Connery fans should seek out.
Fantastica Daily
Product Description:
A harrowing and compellingly constructed chamber drama of police brutality and mental anguish, THE OFFENCE takes director Sidney Lumet's obsession with the policeman's conflicted position as his brother's keeper into the realms of the psychological thriller. Sean Connery is devastatingly desperate as Officer Johnson, a 20-year veteran of the police force on the trail of a serial child molester. As the film begins, Lumet immediately plunges the viewer into a climax of crisis and violence with Johnson at the center. With a shuffling and halting narrative, the events leading to Johnson's mysterious breakdown unfurl. When a young girl becomes the latest victim of the child molester, Johnson is unhinged after he finds the victim, naked and wounded in the marshes on the outskirts of town. Baxter (Ian Bannen), a teetering and dazed man, is picked up wandering in the center of town and becomes Johnson's primary suspect. The interrogation that follows is a swift descent into hell, as the torture of 20 years of police work slowly seeps out of Johnson's fetid soul and turns the questioning into a brutal verbal and physical showdown, seemingly to the death. THE OFFENCE was based on a play by John Hopkins entitled THIS STORY OF YOURS.