Time Without Pity (1957)
It all started with a young girl’s scream …
85 min
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.”
- Release date
- March 21, 1957
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Michael Redgrave as David Graham
- Ann Todd as Honor Stanford
- Leo McKern as Robert Stanford
- Paul Daneman as Brian Stanford
- Peter Cushing as Jeremy Clayton
- Alec McCowen as Alec Graham
- Renee Houston as Mrs. Harker
- Lois Maxwell as Vickie Harker
- Richard Wordsworth as Maxwell, the M.P.
- George Devine as Barnes, the Editor
- Joan Plowright as Agnes Cole
- Ernest Clark as Under Secretary
- Peter Copley as Prison Chaplain
- Hugh Moxey as Prison Governor
- Dickie Henderson as Comedian
- John Chandos as 1st Journalist
- Vernon Greeves as 2nd Journalist
- Arnold Diamond as 3rd Journalist
- Julian Somers as First Warder
- Aubrey Richards as Prison Gatekeeper
- Gwynne Whitby as Stanford's Housekeeper
- Dervis Ward as 1st Mechanic
- David Lander as 2nd Mechanic
- Richard Leech
Crew
- Joseph Losey · Director
- Ben Barzman · Writer
- John Arnold · Producer
- Anthony Simmons · Producer
- Tristram Cary · Composer
- Freddie Francis · Cinematographer
- Alan Osbiston · Editor
- Reece Pemberton · Production designer