A 1972 film by Sidney Lumet in which Sean Connery plays a detective whose decades of encountering evil have made him morally indistinguishable from the criminal he interrogates.
Provided the direct template for Batman's interrogation of the Joker in 'The Dark Knight' — the detective who has absorbed so much of the criminal's psychology that the interrogation scene becomes a dark mirror rather than a confrontation.
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