Time Without Pity

Time Without Pity is a 1957 British film noir thriller about a father trying to save his son from execution for murder. Directed by expatriate American Joseph Losey, after he was blacklisted in America due to McCarthyism, Time Without Pity was his second film in Britain and his first under his own name. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, and Leo McKern. It is also the second film of British cinematographer Freddie Francis, as director of photography (the British credit is simply "photography"). Joan Plowright appears briefly as a feisty chorus girl and Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 James Bond films, also has a stand-out scene as a girl who can be bought. The screenplay was written by fellow blacklisted writer Ben Barzman, adapted from the play Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams.