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The Offence (1973)

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In The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a case of child molestation. For reasons he cannot explain, he is driven to kill the suspect while interrogating him and is suspended from the force. The incident leads to a nervous breakdown -- and the implication that Johnson had beaten the molester to death to purge himself of his own hidden pederastic tendencies. Based on John Hopkins' stage play This Story of Yours, The

R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Feb 1, 1993

United Artists

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A fascinating and intense psychological thriller. This is one Connery fans should seek out.

September 21, 2005 Comment
Fantastica Daily

The film was in some ways spoiled but not ruined by the pretentiously arty way it was directed by Sidney Lumet.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Impressive work of Sean Connery as Detective Sgt. Johnson, resisting in front of colleagues and in his private life not to spill the cesspool inside his mind. The immersion in this man's shattered mind reminded me vaguely of Guy de Maupassant's short story "Diary of a Madman" in wich a guardian of law and order becomes

July 6, 2007
pier007

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If you take a look at some of the other movies Sean Connery was making during and immediately after his tenure as James Bond, they reveal an actor working desperately hard not to be typecast. His roles of this period include a frustrated poet, a scheming would-be inheritor, a prisoner in a British army glasshouse, a

August 16, 2009
harrycaul

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