Joy Freers Elaine Cassidy D.C. Dinah Kowalska Paul Ritter Randolph Miller Will Mellor … Where would the James Bond franchise be now if Sydney Lumet had been given a shot? No Offence (TV Series 2015– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. In 2004, MGM UK released a DVD of the film which contained no extras or trailers. By the end of the interrogation, Johnson has severely beaten Baxter who is then taken to the hospital where he later dies. Bodies, stinking, swollen, black, putrid and the smell of death. The Offence does little to calm considering its macabre subject. Haunting cinematography and editing. (uncredited), Police Station Visitor This is potentially Connery's best performance and he does so playing someone numerous layers of moral ambiguity. 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Sean Connery Trevor Howard Vivien Merchant Ian Bannen Peter Bowles Derek Newark Ronald Radd John Hallam, Ken Barker Chris Greenham Graham V. Hartstone, 112 mins   United Artists pulled out of the deal and the other project, a film version of Macbeth that Connery was to direct, was scotched by Roman Polanski's adaptation. The signs of it being based on a play hardly show in the first 20 minutes. This…, Movies that you may want to see and are available to stream for free on Amazon, if you have a…, Keenan Tamblyn 600 films 2,418 12 Edit, Found these lists (twelve total which I've compiled) a couple years back and they slowly became my bible for weird…, KEVIИ HДWKIИS 1,000 films 2,183 69 Edit, Updated to remove any movies in "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", and my Ultimate Film Canon lists…, Stephen Williamson 3,116 films 1,236 15 Edit, some films are not on tmdb, some may have been mismatched or simply not found when importing into…. No Offence (TV Series 2015–2018) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The Offence is the easily the strangest and most experimental one yet, evoking something of an horror format with silent and grisly images quick-cut within the main narrative - memories of Don't Look Now pervaded the picture. His descent into madness is terrifying, mostly because, even at his most sane, he is established as already terrifying, though generally on the right side of the law. It is available as an exclusive from Amazon.com and contains no extras. Actors including Alison Steadman, Victoria Hamilton and Adrian Lester lead the ensemble cast of Mike Bartlett's new drama, Life, "A fascinating look at the human psyche based on Z Cars scriptwriter John Hopkins' acclaimed stage play This Story of Yours, The Offence is an expertly crafted study of evil and human weakness that demands to be watched in its entirety. His anger surfaces while interrogating Kenneth Baxter, who is suspected of raping a young girl. Usually, we get to see the reasons for why a character reaches breaking point. The cast was as follows:[7], The first major revival of the play was directed by Jack Gold at London's Hampstead Theatre, opening on 5 February 1987 with the following cast:[8], Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/14/the-offence-sidney-lumet-dvd-review-sean-connery, http://www.londonpubtheatres.com/this-story-of-yours/4594169452, http://screenanarchy.com/2015/05/learning-from-the-masters-of-cinema-sidney-lumets-the-offence.html, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Offence&oldid=981689826, Articles needing additional references from March 2016, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Policemen - Edward Clayton, Steven Barnes, Oliver Maguire, Colin Pinney, Police Constables - Paul Fryer, Frederick Lane, This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 21:16. It takes on the guise of yet another serial killer film. Based on a stage play, and following its structure, with additional exterior scenes, the film unfolds predominantly over the course of three lengthy dialogue scenes: between Johnson and his wife (Vivian…. But I’d watch it again just for the atmosphere. I've been gathering that popular opinion places this as one of Connery's best performances (watch out, Zardoz), and I'd find it hard for him to…. Even a stage play is shot in expertly crafted flash backs to create intrigue and tension. [2] The Offence, made under the working title Something Like the Truth (a line that appears in John Hopkins' original play), was the first. Official Sites This is not up for debate. An extremely gripping and sad story told theatrically, but, of course, this is Lumet. In his 20 years on the force, Detective Frank Johnson (Sean Connery) has seen a lot of horrifying things. What he reveals in plot is done more so by images than dialogue so you have much reason to believe this is going to be Lumet Unleashed, his artiest pure cinema. (uncredited), Audience Member [1] It stars Sean Connery as police detective Johnson, who kills suspected child molester Kenneth Baxter (Ian Bannen) while interrogating him. United Artists released The Offence early in 1973. The direction feels like it was an influence on Taxi Driver’s climax, amongst many others (though that’s all speculation). Johnson at first flies into a rage and strikes Baxter, but he eventually admits that he does indeed harbour obsessive fantasies of murder and rape. (uncredited), Right wing protester Like his others that are based on plays, it's obvious. Detective-Sergeant Johnson has been a police officer for 20 years and is deeply affected by the murders, rapes, and other violent crimes he has investigated. Although Sean Connery is (and probably forever will be) best-known for his iconic role as 007, his finest performances can arguably be found in his 1970s post-Bond body of work. Cast Sean Connery - Johnson Trevor Howard - Cartwright Vivien Merchant - Maureen Ian Bannen - Baxter Peter Bowles - Cameron Derek Newark - Jessard Ronald Radd - Lawson John Hallam - Panton Richard Moore - Garrett - Hill It was very much a personal project for Connery and is resolutely uncommercial in feel. Indeed, it only got funded as part of a deal United Artists brokered in order to persuade him to return to the role of Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The hugely stylised opening to The Offence grabs us in an embrace of chilled curiosity, the imposing figure of a menacing Sean Connery stood over a pile of crumpled bodies exactly what we need to get us interested in a long series of chatty discourses to follow. Starring: Trevor Howard, Sean Connery. But Lumet's direction is always worth studying... even with his less accomplished films. Generally bleak and melancholic films. When Connery agreed to return as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, David V. Picker, CEO of United Artists, pledged to back two of Connery's own film projects, provided they cost $2 million or less, in association with Connery's own production company, Tantallon Films. Directed by: Sidney Lumet. In fact, film and stage writer John Hopkins leans so heavily into the disquieting revelations and tangled ambiguity of his material that the relentlessly grim nature of Lumet was one of the best directors ever, maybe not top-20 but top-50 absolutely. touches. One of the most underrated films I’ve seen, I wish more people would watch it. But it's mainly about the breaking point itself and the resulting aftermath. This is the tenth of his films I've seen, and with each new one I watch he continues to amaze me. The word "bloody" is being said more times in this than "fuck" is said in Pulp Fiction. Never saw this Lumet and had the opportunity to do so with Kino Lorber's Blu-ray. Disorienting slow-motion, flashes of dream sequence, disrupting time cuts. [...] it still packs quite a punch and features compelling performances from both Sean Connery and Ian Bannen. The most neglected of Sidney Lumet's long run of masterpieces, The Offence stages a hauntingly eerie and almost surreal dive into masculine sexuality, psychological trauma and the violent stage where the two meet. This film creeped up on me suddenly while I was watching and then before the end it just punched me straight to the gut. Chilling. Vivienne Deering Alexandra Roach D.S. Company Credits Interior sets were filmed at Twickenham Studios. ", An unsparing and wholly consuming character piece, one that retains the agonizing clarity of its stage roots while welcoming cinematic language as a means of heightening the severe trauma at the core of the drama's rage and shame. I have no wish to argue with that in terms of the level of praise that Allen was handing out to Lumet by saying this, but Lumet was much more than a 'New York filmmaker'. A French Region 2 DVD, preserving the film's original ratio of 1:1.66, became available in 2009. White, shattered, splintered bones. In fact, film and stage writer John Hopkins leans so heavily into the disquieting revelations and tangled ambiguity of his material that the relentlessly grim nature of this procedural becomes completely suffocating. A rigorous and gruelling ascent to the furthest echelons of bleakness, Sidney Lumet's The Offence is a uniquely disturbing crime drama based on the stage play 'This Story of Yours' by John Hopkins that boldly explores the psychology of police officer PTSD through the vessel of an unhinged Sean Connery.