The Offence R
After 20 years, what detective-sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: MGM
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:
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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
Although the story has become a staple of films and TV police dramas since this, it still hasn't been done quite so well.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
The Offence presents audiences with an overwhelmingly bleak rumination on evil.
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The Skinny
A great disappointment.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/5 --
A powerful and complex performance by Connery is somewhat weakened by Lumet's typically stiff and stagey direction.
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TV Guide
Lumet's direction strives to give to material that is neither edifying nor suspenseful a fake profundity, stretching it to unconscionable lengths.
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TIME Magazine
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
Description by OLDIES.com:
Sidney Lumet directs Sean Connery as a British police detective whose 20 years of handling murder, rape and other violent cases culminate in a deadly loss of control during a routine interrogation.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 34,875
- UPC: 883904219569
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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