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Town Without Pity (1961)
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March 1961 (Austria)
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Tagline:
The Story of What Four Men Did To a Girl... And What the Town Did To Them!
Plot:
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant. full summary | add synopsis
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Village
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Rape
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Provincialism
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Cross Examination
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
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1 nomination
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Overuse of Good Music Without Pity
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kirk Douglas | ... | Maj. Steve Garrett | |
| Barbara Rütting | ... | Inge Koerner | |
| Christine Kaufmann | ... | Karin Steinhof | |
| E.G. Marshall | ... | Col. Jerome Pakenham | |
| Hans Nielsen | ... | Karl Steinhof | |
| Ingrid van Bergen | ... | Trude | |
| Robert Blake | ... | Cpl. Jim Larkin | |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Cpl. Birdwell "Birdie" Scott | |
| Frank Sutton | ... | Sgt. Chuck Snyder | |
| Karin Hardt | ... | Frau Steinhof | |
| Gerhart Lippert | ... | Frank Borgmann | |
| Mal Sondock | ... | Pvt. Joey Haines | |
| Alan Gifford | ... | Gen. Stafford | |
| Max Haufler | ... | Dr. Urban | |
| Rose Renée Roth | ... | Frau Kulig |
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105 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Christine Kaufmann's American film debut.
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Continuity: When Karin is trying to draw Frank's attention, we see her unhook her bra (while obscured by bushes), remove half of her two-piece bikini suit, followed shortly by a shot of her bare back. When Jim Larkin covers her up with his shirt, we can see she is wearing the bikini top again. In the context of the plot, she would not have been able to put it back on, and the soldiers certainly would not have. (Though we never see her dropping the bottom, we can assume she did remove it at the same time, without that being presented.)
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Col. Jerome Pakenham:
This is no cross-examination! It's a circus!
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A Note Regarding SpoilersWhere was "Town Without Pity" filmed?
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This was all in all a great film, with riveting performances from all the cast. My problem was the weak,ineffective score, which took a great theme song and beat it like a dead horse. The opening scene and credits placed the song well, but the frequent, unrelenting repeat of the theme both instrumental and with Gene Pitney's great vocals throughout the film in quite inappropriate places "isn't very pretty" at all. Very distracting to the viewer, and certainly took away some of the film's impact.The rest of the score was passable, but nothing special. I think the intended tone of the film could have been maintained or even intensified if there were no further music in the film after the song ran with the opening credits.