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Time Without Pity is a 1957 British film noir thriller about a father trying to save his son from execution for murder.
Directed by expatriate American Joseph Losey, after he was blacklisted in America due to McCarthyism, Time Without Pity was his second film in Britain and his first under his own name. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, and Leo McKern. It is also the second film of British cinematographer Freddie Francis, as director of photography (the British credit is simply "photography"). Joan Plowright appears briefly as a feisty chorus girl and Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 James Bond films, also has a stand-out scene as a girl who can be bought.
The screenplay was written by fellow blacklisted writer Ben Barzman, adapted from the play Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams.
Original Release
03/21/1957
US Release
11/22/1957
Cast
Name | Character |
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Michael Redgrave | David Graham |
Ann Todd | Honor Stanford |
Leo McKern | Robert Stanford |
Paul Daneman | Brian Stanford |
Peter Cushing | Jeremy Clayton |
Alec McCowen | Alec Graham |
Renee Houston | Mrs. Harker |
Lois Maxwell | Vickie Harker |
Richard Wordsworth | Maxwell - the MP / Maxwell, the M.P. |
George Devine | Barnes - the Editor / Barnes, the Editor |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Michael Redgrave | David Graham |
Ann Todd | Honor Stanford |
Leo McKern | Robert Stanford |
Paul Daneman | Brian Stanford |
Peter Cushing | Jeremy Clayton |
Alec McCowen | Alec Graham |
Renee Houston | Mrs. Harker |
Lois Maxwell | Vickie Harker |
Richard Wordsworth | Maxwell - the MP / Maxwell, the M.P. |
George Devine | Barnes - the Editor / Barnes, the Editor |
Joan Plowright | Agnes Cole |
Ernest Clark | Under-Secretary, Home Office / Under Secretary |
Peter Copley | Prison Chaplain |
Hugh Moxey | Prison Governor |
Dickie Henderson | Comedian |
John Chandos | First Journalist / 1st Journalist |
Vernon Greeves | Second Journalist / 2nd Journalist |
Arnold Diamond | Third Journalist / 3rd Journalist |
Julian Somers | First Warder |
Aubrey Richards | Prison Gatekeeper |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Leon Clore | Executive Producer |
John Arnold | Producer |
Anthony Simmons | Producer |