A girl has gone missing. Police Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery) joins the search and finds her in shock after being brutally raped. He tracks down suspect Kenneth Baxter and brings him in for interrogation. It ends with Baxter beaten by Johnson who has been haunted by his years of working on terrible cases.
This is a compelling character study. It shows Sean Connery at his acting best. Director Sidney Lumet stripes the movie down to its bare walls and allows Connery to boil over. The best section is him alone with his wife. The second best section is with his supervisor. In a way, I almost rather be imagining what happened in that interrogation. It's anti-climatic to actually see it. You know what I would do for a shock ending. Have him go to a hospitalized Baxter and kill the suspect there. Have him turn into the thing that he hates. Have the violence truly infect him and transform him.
This is a compelling character study. It shows Sean Connery at his acting best. Director Sidney Lumet stripes the movie down to its bare walls and allows Connery to boil over. The best section is him alone with his wife. The second best section is with his supervisor. In a way, I almost rather be imagining what happened in that interrogation. It's anti-climatic to actually see it. You know what I would do for a shock ending. Have him go to a hospitalized Baxter and kill the suspect there. Have him turn into the thing that he hates. Have the violence truly infect him and transform him.