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1973
The Offence is a 1973 British neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet starring Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, and Ian Bannen. Connery plays a veteran police detective who suffers a psychological breakdown and kills a suspect during an interrogation. The screenplay was written by John Hopkins, who adapted his 1968 stage play This Story of Yours.
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Name of actor: Ian Bannen Name of film: The Offence Director: Sidney Lumet Year: 1973 Poster Trailer Why this actor: Bannen, a Scottish actor, has a complicated deep, twisted, pyschological role to play in this overwhelmingly bleak but compelling crime thriller from 1973, set somewhere in middle England and directed by the great Sidney Lumet, based on the 1968 stage play - This Story of Yours by John Hopkins. Bannen…More
In the early 1970s, Sean Connery was working very hard to distance himself and his career from the role of James Bond as much as possible. He thus became involved in a series of projects that were unconventional and risky, of which his bizarre role in John Boorman's *Zardoz* is probably the best known. Some of those projects sank into obscurity, sometimes with good reason and sometimes without. *The Offence*, a 1973…More
