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The Offence 1973 123movies

The Offence 1973 123movies

After 20 years, what detective-sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him.Jan. 11, 1973112 Min.
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Watch: The Offence 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson’s been on the police force for 12 years. In that time, the number murders, rapes, and other felony crimes he’s investigated has left a terrible mark on his psyche. His bottled-up anger and rage finally explode whilst interviewing Baxter – a suspect in a series of brutal attacks on young girls. Throughout the interview, Johnson brutally beats Baxter and reveals the state of his own mind is probably no better than some of the offenders who’ve comitted the crimes that disgust him..
Plot: A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
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6.9/10 Votes: 7,202
71% | RottenTomatoes
70/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 114 Popularity: 11.213 | TMDB

Reviews:

Big Tam Lets Rip
After returning to save the James Bond franchise with “Diamonds Are Forever,” Sean Connery made a complete left-field choice for his next role. In “The Offence,” he plays a stressed-out police officer on the verge of a nervous breakdown who is in a physical and psychological battle with a paedophile suspect he has in custody. Connery’s character is also struggling with his own paedophile tendencies. It is an adaptation of John Hopkins play “This Story of Yours.” It is essentially a two-hander for the most part with Connery and Ian Bannen (as the paedophile) trying to get the better of one another in the interrogation room of a police station.

Even though Sean Connery won his only Oscar for “The Untouchables”, for me, this is by far his best performance. He is an absolute powerhouse in this going from shouting, snarling rage to raving and ranting about paedophiles to then sobbing like a child and begging forgiveness.

Ian Bannen is, if anything, even better than Connery here. His character veers from confused innocence to leering guilt, from screaming frustration to self-pity and then back to arrogance. It’s an amazing performance. Sadly, Ian Bannen was killed in a car crash a few years back. A huge loss to the acting community.

While “The Offence” on the surface seems like a very British police procedural drama, it was, surprisingly, directed by the American Sidney Lumet. Like Lumet’s best movies (“Twelve Angry Men,” “The Hill”, “Serpico” and “Dog Day Afternoon”) this film features a character in an extremely pressurized situation. It’s brave film-making at its darkest. Hollywood certainly took notice as Lumet was chosen to direct a young Al Pacino in two of his breakthrough movies “Serpico” in 1973 and “Dog Day Afternoon” in 1975 after this.

This is the kind of film that would not only never be made today, to even suggest it as an idea for a film would probably be the end of your career. So, if you’re tired of CGI monsters and explosions and you want to experience raw acting at its finest, get a copy of this film. It is uncomfortable viewing due to its disturbing subject matter, but you won’t see better acting anywhere. Highly recommended.

Review By: zofos
A Universal Police Story
The Offence came out in 1972 as Sean Connery was desperately trying to break away from his James Bond image. It became sadly one of long list of critically acclaimed performances that flopped badly at the box office.

That’s a pity because he’s really quite a marvel in this role as detective sergeant Johnson one of a number of investigators on the trail of a serial rapist.

When the perpetrator is caught Connery interrogates him alone and so loses it he ends up beating the suspect to death. The rest of the film explains the reason for his mental breakdown.

Although Connery received the critical acclaim here, my favorite in this film is Ian Bannen as the perpetrator. The best scenes in the film are Connery interrogating Bannen and even though it costs him his life, Bannen manages to lay Connery’s soul open to the bone.

Sidney Lumet did many films with Sean Connery with greater and lesser success critically and commercially. Though the location is in the United Kingdom, this could have been set in any large municipal police department. In fact The Offence bears no small resemblance to William Wyler’s classic The Detective Story.

In another way this resembles Nightmare Alley which Tyrone Power begged Darryl Zanuck to let him do so he could expand his range and get away from the image of the caped swashbuckling hero. Zanuck let him do it, but like with Connery in The Offence, the public stayed away in droves.

Sad because they missed something really good. But then again Connery was trying to break from his identification with James Bond.

Review By: bkoganbing

Other Information:

Original Title The Offence
Release Date 1973-01-11
Release Year 1973

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Sidney Lumet
Writer John Hopkins
Actors Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
The Offence 1973 123movies
Original title The Offence
TMDb Rating 6.882 114 votes

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