Director: Joseph LOSEY. Screenplay: Ben Barzman. Based on the stage play, "Someone Waiting: by Emlyn Williams. Original music by Tristram Cary. Photography: Freddie Francis. Film editor: Alan Osbiston. Production designer: Reece Pemberton. Art director: Bernard Sarron. Hair stylist: Ivy Emmerton. Make-up artist: Alex Garfath. Production manager: Leigh Aman. Assistant directors: Adrian Pryce-Jones, Colin M. Brewer. Sound recording: Cyril Collick. Dubbing editor: Rusty Coppleman. Wardrobe: Irma Birch. Set continuity: Pamela Davies. Music conductor: Marcus Dods. Camera operator: Arthur Ibbetson. Still photographer: Ed Orton. Properties: Leander Richards. Assistant film editor: John Victor-Smith. Production secretary: Anthea Warren. Producers: John Arnold and Anthony Simmons. Executive producer: Leon Clore.
A Harlequin Production, released in the U.K. through Eros: 13 May 1957. U.S. release through Famous Pictures. New York opening at the 55th Street Playhouse: 22 November 1957. Australian release through British Empire Films: 23 April 1959 (sic). Censored to 88 minutes in the U.K., but shown in a 92 minutes version in Australia. Alas, only the censored version is available on DVD – Odeon in the U.K., Homevision in the U.S.A.
SYNOPSIS: A father has only 24 hours to save his son from the hangman's noose.
COMMENT: A modestly budgeted but powerful thriller, "Time Without Pity" was directed with driving concentration by Joseph Losey, its drama encompassing the Greek unities and refracted through a series of distorting mirrors reflecting the superb portrayals of a first- rate cast including Michael Redgrave and Leo McKern.
This was Losey's his first screen credit on a feature film in England, where he had taken refuge from the F.B.I.'s charge of alleged "Un-American activities" in the U.S.A.
Losey had actually been sheltering in England for five years before he directed "Time Without Pity". In the meantime, he had directed a few British pictures without credit, as well as a short, "Man on the Beach", for which he did receive a credit. He was also engaged in stage work in London's West End where he produced two plays, "The Wooden Dish" and "The Night of the Ball".
A Harlequin Production, released in the U.K. through Eros: 13 May 1957. U.S. release through Famous Pictures. New York opening at the 55th Street Playhouse: 22 November 1957. Australian release through British Empire Films: 23 April 1959 (sic). Censored to 88 minutes in the U.K., but shown in a 92 minutes version in Australia. Alas, only the censored version is available on DVD – Odeon in the U.K., Homevision in the U.S.A.
SYNOPSIS: A father has only 24 hours to save his son from the hangman's noose.
COMMENT: A modestly budgeted but powerful thriller, "Time Without Pity" was directed with driving concentration by Joseph Losey, its drama encompassing the Greek unities and refracted through a series of distorting mirrors reflecting the superb portrayals of a first- rate cast including Michael Redgrave and Leo McKern.
This was Losey's his first screen credit on a feature film in England, where he had taken refuge from the F.B.I.'s charge of alleged "Un-American activities" in the U.S.A.
Losey had actually been sheltering in England for five years before he directed "Time Without Pity". In the meantime, he had directed a few British pictures without credit, as well as a short, "Man on the Beach", for which he did receive a credit. He was also engaged in stage work in London's West End where he produced two plays, "The Wooden Dish" and "The Night of the Ball".