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The Offence is a 1973 British neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet starring Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, and Ian Bannen. [2] Connery plays a veteran police detective who suffers a psychological breakdown and kills a suspect during an interrogation.
Sgt. Ryker (Lee Marvin) is an American soldier charged with treason during the Korean War, he is court-martialed and prosecuted by Capt. David Young (Bradford Dillman) and convicted and sentenced to death. Ryker's wife, Ann , insists that her husband received an inadequate defense. She believes his story that he had been on a secret mission ...
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller [2] directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard.Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, [3] the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
Guilty of Treason is a 1950 American drama film directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville and Paul Kelly. Also known by the alternative title Treason , it is an anti-communist and anti-Soviet film about the story of József Mindszenty , a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary . [ 1 ]
I Accuse! is a 1958 British biographical historical drama film based on the Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish captain in the French Army was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned for five years before being pardoned.
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In addition to the crime of treason, the Treason Felony Act 1848 (still in force today) created a new offence known as treason felony, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment instead of death (but today, due to the abolition of the death penalty, the maximum penalty both for high treason and treason felony is the same—life imprisonment).
Ring of Spies (also known as Ring of Treason) [2] is a 1964 British spy film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Lee, William Sylvester and Margaret Tyzack. [3] It was written by Peter Barnes and Frank Launder based on the real-life case of the Portland spy ring, whose activities prompted "Reds under the bed" scare stories in the British popular press in the early 1960s.