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The Offence [DVD] [1972]
enlarge	Director: Sidney Lumet Actors: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £5.14 as of 25/11/2009 10:25 GMT details You Save: £7.85 (60%) New (10) from £5.14 Seller: cavalcade-of-dvds Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 5936 Format: PAL Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 108 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5055201804617 ASIN: B001D07QHG Theatrical Release Date: 1972 Release Date: October 20, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Connery directed by Lumet October 8, 2008 S J Buck (Kent, UK) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful Anything directed by Sidney Lumet is worth considering and this is one of his very best. A dark and disturbing story, featuring two brilliant performances by Sean Connery and Ian Bannen. Its no coincidence that 'The Hill' from eight years earlier was also directed by Lumet and featured Connery and Bannen. br / br /Connery is Sergeant Johnson a Policeman who after twenty years of dealing with murders, rapes and other violent crimes has had enough. Bannen plays child molester Kenneth Baxter who Johnson has to interrogate. His interrogation is brutal and Johnson starts to doubt whether he is any better than the man he is interrogating. This is a grim and depressing film throughout with the strain and stress of work affecting Johnsons homelife as well as his professional life. Somehow though its a film that I always enjoy when I see it again. I think this is down to Connery's massive screen prescence, a good script, and one of the best Directors of the 1970's. br / br /This is only a 15 on DVD in the UK, but some may find the subject matter and general downbeat nature of the film off-putting. If in doubt I would rent it first. br / "This story of yours..." November 1, 2008 Trevor Willsmer (London, England) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful The Offence tends to have been relegated to a trivia question these days (what was the film United Artists agreed to make as part of their deal to get Sean Connery to play Bond in Diamonds Are Forever?). On some levels it is dated, but the power of Connery's truly extraordinary performance is undiminished. A man almost totally morally decayed by the horrors of the job who sees something he recognises in himself in the suspect in a series of child-rapes (an almost equally impressive Ian Bannen), with terrible consequences, it's a ferocious outpouring of anger and contempt crying out for help he simply won't accept. The eternally under-rated Sidney Lumet's direction is bold and cinematic despite the theatrical origins (the play Something Like the Truth by Thunderball co-writer John Hopkins), the film's dulled palette mirrored by the half-finished grey concrete of the modernist police station: with its large windows looking out at pure blackness, it's more a reflection of the character's state of mind than an attempt at a realistic representation, but it's an entirely appropriate arena. br / One of Connery's best September 23, 2009 Andy B (Canada) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Ok, first things first, I am a huge Connery fan this movie has always struck me as 1 of his finest in the acting structure of the movie. A very nice wide screen copy, sit back see a truly great performance. Although the subject matter of child abduction may disturb, there is hardly any thing seen, it's all in the performance of a great cast. Totally absorbing, wholly underrated November 22, 2009 Gordon Hawk (London) This is a marvelous film. A watertight script, neatly edited and a chilling score from Harrison Birtwistle. It is rare to find a film that is so accomplished, yet so utterly neglected of its place in cinematic history.

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