Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt in 1961 "Town Without Pity" is a
thoroughly nasty sleaze-fest in which Kirk Douglas plays an American
army officer in Germany tasked with defending 4 soldiers who have raped a
young German girl played by Christine Kaufmann. Two of the soldiers are
Robert Blake, (dreadful), and Richard Jaeckel and E G Marshall is
wasted as the prosecutor. Purporting to adopt a moral stance in
exploring the hypocrisy and small-mindedness of the townspeople the film
is actually no better than a piece of tabloid journalism, (the defence
is basically that the girl was asking for it!). Even the Oscar-nominated
title song, as sung by Gene Pithney, feels cheap and out of place as
does Dimitri Tiomkin's appallingly emphatic score. This is the kind of
film that leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. Avoid.
Saturday 4 August 2018
TOWN WITHOUT PITY no stars
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt in 1961 "Town Without Pity" is a
thoroughly nasty sleaze-fest in which Kirk Douglas plays an American
army officer in Germany tasked with defending 4 soldiers who have raped a
young German girl played by Christine Kaufmann. Two of the soldiers are
Robert Blake, (dreadful), and Richard Jaeckel and E G Marshall is
wasted as the prosecutor. Purporting to adopt a moral stance in
exploring the hypocrisy and small-mindedness of the townspeople the film
is actually no better than a piece of tabloid journalism, (the defence
is basically that the girl was asking for it!). Even the Oscar-nominated
title song, as sung by Gene Pithney, feels cheap and out of place as
does Dimitri Tiomkin's appallingly emphatic score. This is the kind of
film that leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. Avoid.
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