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Sean Connery

25 August 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Trevor Howard

29 September 1913, Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

Vivien Merchant

22 July 1929, Manchester, England, UK

Ian Bannen

29 June 1928, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Peter Bowles

16 October 1936, London, England, UK

Derek Newark

8 June 1933, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK

Ronald Radd

22 January 1929, Ryhope, Sunderland, County Durham, England, UK

John Hallam

28 October 1941, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK

Richard Moore

1934, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

Anthony Sagar

19 June 1920, Burnley, England, UK

Maxine Gordon

Hilda Fenemore

22 April 1914, St. Pancras, London, England, UK

Rhoda Lewis

25 June 1933, Moseley, Birmingham, England, UK

Cynthia Lund

9 December 1960

Howard Goorney

11 May 1921, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

May 28, 1938 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK

Bill Hemmings

George Hilsdon

25 April 1907, West Ham, London, England, UK

Eric Kent

July 16, 1937 in London, England, UK

Roy Lansford

Roy Macready

1934, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Michael Redfern

March 30, 1943 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK

Mike Reynell

Reg Turner

Sidney Lumet

25 June 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John Hopkins

27 January 1931, London, England, UK

Detective Sergeant Johnson

Played by: Sean Connery

Lieutenant Cartwright

Played by: Trevor Howard

Maureen Johnson

Played by: Vivien Merchant

Kenneth Baxter

Played by: Ian Bannen

Time Out

Embedded in a 'realistic' police scene, dialogue and situations now have a ring of arty melodrama. Fascinating, nevertheless, with outstanding performances from Connery and (especially) Bannen.

January 26, 2006

Fantastica Daily

A fascinating and intense psychological thriller. This is one Connery fans should seek out.

September 21, 2005

Radio Times

Gritty police programmes are now so much a part of the TV landscape that it is hard to realise that a feature like The Offence once packed quite a punch.

May 12, 2015

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Variety

There's a powerful confrontation of authority and accused between police sergeant Sean Connery and suspected child molester Ian Bannen in Sidney Lumet's The Offence. A brilliant scene, however, does not in itself make for a brilliant overall feature.

April 04, 2011

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The Skinny

The Offence presents audiences with an overwhelmingly bleak rumination on evil.

April 16, 2015

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The Spectator

A great disappointment.

May 12, 2015

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TV Guide

A powerful and complex performance by Connery is somewhat weakened by Lumet's typically stiff and stagey direction.

May 12, 2015

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New York Times

It's highly theatrical -- perhaps just a little too highly theatrical for the more or less realistic context -- but it's been staged by Lumet for maximum effect.

May 09, 2005

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Times (UK)

The third collaboration between Sean Connery and the director Sidney Lumet is an unsettling glimpse into the toxic mind of a policeman who has been polluted by the horrors witnessed over the course of his career.

May 12, 2015

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Film4

Although the story has become a staple of films and TV police dramas since this, it still hasn't been done quite so well.

May 24, 2003

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CinePassion

This unrelentingly somber policier inaugurates a newfound force in Lumet's work.

May 12, 2015

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TIME Magazine

Lumet's direction strives to give to material that is neither edifying nor suspenseful a fake profundity, stretching it to unconscionable lengths.

May 12, 2015

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