Town Without Pity (1961 film)

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Town Without Pity is a 1961 courtroom drama film set in postwar Germany, following a U.S. Army officer defending four American soldiers accused of raping a local teenage girl amid intense public hostility and moral controversy.

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instanceOf film
authorOfSourceWork Manfred Gregor
basedOn The Verdict
short story
cinematographyBy Kurt Hasse
colorProcess black-and-white
countryOfOrigin United States
director Gottfried Reinhardt NERFINISHED
distributor United Artists
United Artists (US)
linked to: United Artists
editedBy Walter Boos NERFINISHED
filmingLocation West Germany
genre courtroom film
drama film
hasSong Town Without Pity
lyricistOfTitleSong Ned Washington
mainCharacter Major Steve Garrett
musicBy Dimitri Tiomkin
narrativeLocation postwar Germany
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Song
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A U.S. Army officer defends four American soldiers accused of raping a local teenage girl in a German town amid public hostility and moral controversy
portrayedBy Kirk Douglas
producer Eberhard Meichsner
productionCompany United Artists
releaseDate 1961-09-13
releaseYear 1961
runtimeMinutes 105
screenwriter George Hurdalek
Jan Lustig
Silvio F. Camp
Werner Jörg Lüddecke
settingLocation West Germany
starring Christine Kaufmann
E. G. Marshall
Frank Sutton
Kirk Douglas
Richard Jaeckel
Robert Blake
theme military justice
mob mentality
moral responsibility
rape and sexual violence
victim blaming
themeMusicComposer Dimitri Tiomkin
timePeriodDepicted early 1950s
titleSong Town Without Pity (song)
linked to: Town Without Pity
titleSongPerformer Gene Pitney

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