In
The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a case of child molestation. For reasons he cannot explain, he is driven to kill the suspect while interrogating him and is suspended from the force. The incident leads to a nervous breakdown -- and the implication that Johnson had beaten the molester to death to purge himself of his
own hidden pederastic tendencies. Based on
John Hopkins' stage play
This Story of Yours,
The Offence made little headway at the box office, but United Artists was compelled to release the film to assure Connery's participation in UA's next
James Bond movie.
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