Town Without Pity

Town Without Pity (1961)

The Story of What Four Men Did To a Girl... And What the Town Did To Them!

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.

Date of release
1961-10-10
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama
Director
Gottfried Reinhardt

Casting

Interesting facts

Town Without Pity is a 1961 American/Swiss/West German international co-production drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. Produced by The Mirisch Corporation, the film stars Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann, and E. G. Marshall.

Production

The film's score is by Dimitri Tiomkin. Tiomkin also wrote the music for the song "Town Without Pity", with lyrics by Ned Washington. It was performed by Gene Pitney. The song became an Academy Award nominee and Pitney's first top 40 single.

Filming took place in the towns of Bamberg and Forchheim in Bavaria, Germany, with some scenes shot at the Sievering Studios in the Austrian capital Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer.

Kirk Douglas, who claimed that he broke the Hollywood blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo to write Spartacus, denied Trumbo's request for a credit on the film as he feared that his continued association with the communist screenwriter would hurt his career.

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