Offence DVD (1972)

Offence details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen, Sean Connery, Vivien Merchant
Director:	Sidney Lumet
Genres:	Drama, Thriller - Crime
Studio:	ELEVATION

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Offence	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 48 minutes
Rental release:	04 Oct 2004
Main languages:	English

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A must for anyone who lives in Bracknell

By bobsto (55 reviews) from Pangbourne , 08 Sep 2005

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Anyone who lives in Bracknell, particularly Wildridings must rent this. Yup, that really is the great Sean Connery wandering around all your fav Bracknell spots in a long gone world of sheepskin coats,dodgy haicuts, and British Leyland cars. A priceless period piece. Artistically its quite a good film, though a little intense. Apparently getting this film made was part of Connery's deal for agreeing to play Bond again.
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Great little movie

By a customer from London , 11 Feb 2011

Interesting and thought provoking film, excellent performances from the central characters.

Connery is a damn fine actor, and this is a nice vehicle for his talents.
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The Offence (Sean Connery)

By a customer from North of Watford , 11 Jan 2011

When I first saw this in mid-1970s I felt surprised to see Sean Connery hold his own as an actor in scenes with high-calibre players such as Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant and Ian Bannen. Later I discovered that Connery, Bannen and director Sidney Lumet had worked together nearly a decade earlier on ‘The Hill. In ‘The Offence’ a disturbed and unhappy policeman gets hold of a suspected paedophile and beats him up, posing the question whose offence is the greater? It is harrowing at times but worth a look. Music fans please note that the score is by Harrison Birtwistle.
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Still packs a punch

By NDG (172 reviews) from Oxfordshire , 11 Aug 2010

Melodramatic but tense and darkly atmospheric. A world-weary, seen-it-all cop's desperate longing for innocence and purity leads to an interview room showdown with a suspected paedophile. Still powerful more than 40 years on.
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One film too many.

By a customer from Richmond,Surrey,UK , 19 Feb 2009

We gave up on this one after half an hour or so - the long panning night shots, presumably to establish atmosphere,we just found tedious, the cop who never takes off his sheepskin coat, his tweed hat, and his malevolent expression. Perhaps Sean Connery made too many films. We'd never heard of this one, and now we understand why.
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Offence

By a customer from Middlesbrough , 02 Feb 2009

Obscure Sean Connery title which sees him play effectively against type as a police detective slowly drowning in a career dead end of death and mayhem. Based (I think) on a stage play, it tends to be rather 'talky' and static but Connery revels in his decidedly un-heroic lead and there's some stellar support in the form of Ian Bannen and Trevor Howard. Definitely worth seeing if only for the spectacle of Connery getting down and dirty.
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