With Red Riding thankfully reminding us that the 70s wasn't all loveable racist/sexist cops in ludicrous collars, this film haunted me for years after watching it as a kid.

By far the best thing Connery has done, this is the story of an angry disillusioned cop beating a confession from a suspected paedophile and in doing so confronting his own demons - superb direction from Lumet (in this clip he obviously owes a debt to Roeg and perhaps inspired Scorsese's Tax Driver - the eerie score set against the rain soaked windscreen?)- a classic film with a very dark theme with great performances from Connery and Ian Bannen as the 'nonce' - pity we've been reduced to Life On Mars and Heartbeat these days.