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Release Date:
23 October 1957 (USA) morePlot:
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. moreUser Comments:
Isn't there a Time Limit on courage moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Widmark | ... | Col. William Edwards |
 | Richard Basehart | ... | Maj. Harry Cargill |
 | Dolores Michaels | ... | Cpl. Jean Evans |
 | June Lockhart | ... | Mrs. Cargill |
| Carl Benton Reid | ... | Gen. Connors |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Sgt. Baker |
 | Rip Torn | ... | Lt. George Miller |
| Khigh Dhiegh | ... | Col. Kim (as Kaie Deei) |
| Yale Wexler | ... | Capt. Joe Connors |
| Alan Dexter | ... | Mike |
| Manning Ross | ... | Lt. Harvey |
| Joe Di Reda | ... | Gus (as Joe Di Rida) |
| James Douglas | ... | Steve |
| Kenneth Alton | ... | Boxer |
| Jack Webster | ... | Lt. Harper |
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96 minCountry:
USAColor:
Black and WhiteSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
West Germany:16 (f) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15MOVIEmeter: 
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I have to take exception to other reviewers calling Time Limit, a courtroom drama. There are no scenes in any courtroom, military or civilian. Still it's a very engrossing story.
Richard Widmark is acting as an investigative officer for the Judge Advocate General's Office trying to ascertain if there are enough facts to bring Richard Basehart to trial for treason. Basehart was a prisoner of war in Korea who is accused of collaborating with the enemy.
Through a lot of patient probing of Basehart and others, Widmark arrives at a very ugly story that while it doesn't totally exonerate Basehart it does give him the basis for a defense. So much so that Widmark requests he be assigned as Basehart's attorney when he does come up for court martial.
Time Limit ran for 127 performances on Broadway in 1956 and starred Arthur Kennedy and Richard Kiley in the roles Widmark and Basehart play. Widmark's good friend Karl Malden did this one time only job of directing and gets good performances from his cast.
Time Limit asks a lot of disturbing questions about the behavior of prisoners of war and whether we expect too much from them. Ironically when the USS Pueblo was taken by the North Koreans in the late sixties, these same questions were asked for real.