Town Without Pity (1961)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

7.3/10   

Regisseur:

Gottfried Reinhardt

Drehbuchautoren:

Manfred Gregor (novel)
George Hurdalek (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

März 1961 (Österreich)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

The Story of What Four Men Did To a Girl... And What the Town Did To Them!

Plot:

When four young American soldiers are accused of raping a girl from a German village near their camp...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Small Town Life | Post War | Mayor | Adolescence

Auszeichnungen:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Douglas and Kaufmann are simply fantastic in this movie

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Stadt ohne Mitleid (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Ville sans pitié (Switzerland: French title) (literal title)
Stadt ohne Mitleid (Österreich) [de]

Länge:

105 Min

Land:

USA | Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Switzerland

Sprache:

Englisch | Deutsch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.66 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Drehorte:

Atelier Sievering, Vienna, Austria

Firma:

Mirisch Corporation, The

Dies und das:

Christine Kaufmann's American film debut.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: At the end of the rape scene, Cpl Scott is third to leave. He stands against the tree while telling Jim Larkin to hurry up, and we see his shadow fall strongly on the tree, away from the river. As Scott walks away, we see his shadow primarily fall on the ground the other way, toward the river, and a slighter shadow falling away from the river, revealing the multiple light sources.

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Unearthly (#4.20)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

Town Without Pity

Douglas and Kaufmann are simply fantastic in this movie

Surprisingly this convincing drama is almost ignored by German TV stations nowadays though it features a very touching and impressive performance by Christine Kaufmann who won a Golden Globe for this one (as the first German actress ever). Kirk Douglas is very strong in the male lead having to deal with the awful job to defend four US soldiers who've gang raped a 16-years-old German beauty. Though Reinhardt's style has dated badly the movie's still worth watching. He definitely has done a good job capturing the heartless atmosphere needed for a story like this. There are some haunting moments.....and the sad realization that also more than 40 years after "Town Without Pity" most rape victims still are devastated twice.

By the way, I've seen the German version which is half-dubbed, half-original so that you have several characters speaking with two different voices. I'd prefer a complete English or German version respectively the use of subtitles.