The Offence (1973) on Netflix
Twenty years of murders and rapes weigh on Detective Sergeant Johnson. When a girl goes missing near a schoolyard, he finds her, then fixes on a suspect, Baxter.
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- IMDb6.8/109,220 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes71%
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Plot summary
Detective Sergeant Johnson is a veteran of twenty years on the force, and the violent crimes he has investigated have left him unable to put the images out of his mind. Officers stake out a schoolyard hoping to catch a man abducting and assaulting young girls, but a girl is taken anyway. Johnson finds her in the woods and comforts her, then insists on taking her to the hospital over Lieutenant Cameron's objection. Police pick up Kenneth Baxter, mud-covered, scratched and barely coherent, but Cameron's questioning goes nowhere and they decide they cannot charge him. Johnson is certain Baxter is the man, though Cameron warns him that he cannot be certain. Unauthorized, Johnson takes over the questioning himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Offence (1973)
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- When Sean Connery agreed to return as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, United Artists CEO David V. Picker promised to back two of Connery's own films if they cost $2 million or less; The Offence, the first, was made through Connery's Tantallon Films.
- The Offence was a critical success but a commercial failure: it did not turn a profit for nine years and went unreleased in several markets, including France, where it did not premiere until 2007.
- Because The Offence lost money, United Artists opted out of the two-film financing deal it had struck with Sean Connery and his production company.
- Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, later a celebrated British modernist, wrote only one film score in his career, and it was for The Offence.
- The fight sequences between Sean Connery and Ian Bannen were choreographed, uncredited, by Bob Simmons, the stunt designer who had staged similar action scenes for the James Bond films.
