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March 1957 (UK)
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Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend...
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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TIME WITHOUT PITY (Joseph Losey, 1957) ***
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael Redgrave | ... | David Graham | |
| Leo McKern | ... | Robert Stanford | |
| Ann Todd | ... | Honor Stanford | |
| Paul Daneman | ... | Brian Stanford | |
| Peter Cushing | ... | Jeremy Clayton | |
| Alec McCowen | ... | Alec Graham | |
| Renee Houston | ... | Mrs. Harker | |
| Lois Maxwell | ... | Vicky Harker | |
| Richard Wordsworth | ... | Maxwell (the MP) | |
| George Devine | ... | Barnes (the editor) | |
| Joan Plowright | ... | Agnes Cole | |
| Ernest Clark | ... | Undersecretary, Home Office | |
| Peter Copley | ... | Prison chaplain | |
| Hugh Moxey | ... | Prison governor | |
| Dickie Henderson | ... | Burlesque comedian-MC |
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85 min
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Rather hysterical but engrossing and very well-acted melodrama (particularly by Michael Redgrave, a BAFTA nominee, and Leo McKern), ostensibly a murder mystery but with a manifest position against capital punishment.
Interestingly, the culprit is known from the very beginning but, saddled with an alcoholic hero, one is never sure whether he'll be able to prove his son's innocence of murder; the denouement, then, is terrific - as unexpected as it is ironic. Losey's expressionist style (aided by Freddie Francis's chiaroscuro cinematography) is in full sway here: actually, according to film critic Gerard Legrand - writing in "The Movie" - this was the film were the director really came into his own; I can't vouch for that myself since I have yet to watch three important films he made earlier i.e. THE PROWLER (1951) and M (1951), both Hollywood productions, and THE SLEEPING TIGER (1954), Losey's first effort following his relocation to Britain.
It's undeniably a powerful film though relatively verbose (it was adapted from a play by Emlyn Williams); like I said, Losey drives his actors to fever pitch and he has chosen a most capable cast - including Ann Todd, Alec McCowen, Peter Cushing, Renee' Houston, Lois Maxwell, Joan Plowright, Peter Copley and Richard Wordsworth! The only false note throughout, perhaps, is to be found in the score by Tristram Cary - which is so over-the-top that, at times, it even drowns out the dialogue!