Time Without Pity

Time Without Pity

1957 · 88 min · EN · NR · 6.5 (53 votes)
Dir. Joseph Losey · Starring Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen · Music Tristram Cary

“It all started with a young girl’s scream …”

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Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

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A bleak, rain-slicked descent into a father's desperate race against time. This noir-infused drama grapples with addiction and the crushing weight of a ticking clock, all under a somber, unforgiving sky.

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