Time Without Pity

1957

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 2235 2.2K

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Plot summary

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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Top cast

Peter Cushing as Jeremy Clayton
Michael Redgrave as David Graham
Joan Plowright as Agnes Cole
Lois Maxwell as Vickie Harker
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758.24 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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1.36 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by blanche-2 7 / 10

a man is about to be executed for something he hasn't done

Michael Redgrave plays David Graham, the alcoholic father of a young man (Alec McCowen) on death row in "Time Without Pity" from 1957. The film also stars Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Paul Daneman, Lois Harker, Joan Plowright, and Renee Houston.Graham's son Alec is accused of killing a young woman. David was not around for the trial, due to a stint in rehab (which doesn't seem to have taken). Alec is very hostile to him now.Meanwhile, Alec's surrogate family, the Stanfords (McKern, Todd, and Daneman) are at odds - Mr. Stanford wants nothing to do with the case or Alec, where his wife and son want to help. It seems to David that everyone is keeping secrets, and he has to find out what they are before his son is hanged.Okay film but by today's more subtle acting standards, way over the top in some cases. Michael Redgrave is wonderful, desperate, fighting for his son's life as he battles his habit. Leo McKern, a magnificent character actor best known as Rumpole of the Bailey, yells his way through his role. He's in good company with the loud, overdramatic music. Ann Todd gives a lovely performance.There are a couple of jarring editing mistakes you won't miss.Michael Redgrave, the head of a great acting dynasty of children and grandchildren, is always worth seeing. See it for him.
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Reviewed by writers_reign 6 / 10

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Michael Redgrave seldom turns in a bad performance and occasionally - The Browning Version - he unleashes a great one so he was definitely the selling point for this slightly off-the-wall entry. Several people in talking about this give Emlyn Williams a credit for the original play Someone Waiting but the 'official' credits here list only Ben Barzman and the implication is that it's an Original screenplay. Beginning with the murder of a young girl with the murderer clearly seen we then jump forward to a time when another man, clearly innocent, has been arrested, charged, stood trial, been found guilty and is now hours from execution, all this off screen. Enter Redgrave, flown in from Canada at the last minute and determined to save his son. The film can't decide if it's a race-against-time thriller to find the real murderer or an attack on capital punishment but Redgrave is always a good bet.

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