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The Offence
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| The Offence | |
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| Image:The Offence.jpg original film poster |
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
| Produced by | Denis O'Dell |
| Written by | John Hopkins |
| Starring | Sean Connery Trevor Howard Vivien Merchant Ian Bannen Peter Bowles Derek Newark Ronald Radd |
| Music by | Harrison Birtwistle |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Editing by | John Victor-Smith |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | 1972 |
| Running time | 112 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 |
| IMDb profile | |
The Offence is a 1972 film directed by Sydney Lumet and starring Sean Connery as an exhausted Police Detective who snaps and kills a suspect. The tagline is "After 20 years what Detective-Sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him."
Detective Sergeant Johnson (Connery), has been a police officer for 20 years and has been deeply affected by the many murders, rapes and other serious crimes he investigated.
His anger at these experiences finally surfaces while interviewing a suspected child molester, Baxter (Ian Bannen in a BAFTA-nominated role), whom he brutally beats.
When Connery agreed to return as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever United Artists pledged to back two of Connery's film projects costing $2m or less. The Offence was completed in just one month and with a budget of only $1 million, however it was a commercial failure and did not yield a profit for nine years, even going unreleased in several markets including France. United Artists pulled out of the deal and the next project, a film version of Macbeth that Connery was to direct, was scotched by Roman Polanski's Playboy-financed film and never made.
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