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1963
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Town Without Pity Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies. If it had more going for it than [Kirk] Douglas's...
Four U.S soldiers at an army base in Germany are charged with a gang rape and the prosecutor is asking for the death penalty as demanded by public outrage and the girl's father, a leading citizen of the town. Although sure of their guilt, the defending lawyer is also sure that they do not deserve the death penalty.
Jan 31, 2022 · Based on a novel (Manfred Gregor’s The Verdict) inspired by an actual incident, Town Without Pity is an insistent statement of a theme – essentially, that a rape victim who takes the witness stand is raped all over again as the defence lawyer feels obliged to convince the court that ‘she was asking for it’ — that has been so often ...
Town Without Pity (German: Stadt ohne Mitleid) is a 1961 American/Swiss/West German international co-production drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. Produced by The Mirisch Corporation, the film stars Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann, and E. G. Marshall.
The small German town depicted in Town Without Pity is corrupt and insidious too and not unlike the repressive social environment that Rainer Werner Fassbinder would explore later in his films made during the rise of the New German Film movement in the late sixties.
Reviews. Dec 31, 1960 11:00pm PT. Town Without Pity. At face value, Town without Pity appears to be a straight courtroom drama treatment of a gang rape case and its repercussions on a German...
