Time Without Pity

This is a key film that Hollywood blacklistee Joseph Losey shot during his British exile.

  • Director

    Joseph Losey

  • With

    Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing

  • UK 1957. 90min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

  • A BFI National Archive print

In this searing indictment of capital punishment, Redgrave’s alcoholic father has 24 hours to save his wrongly accused son from execution. HUAC blacklisted director Losey’s first British film to be released under his real name carries autobiographical echoes, including addiction and the experience of a foreigner trying to make sense of England.

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