Without Pity
The Story of a Negro G.I. and a Girl Campfollower!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: VCI Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Carla Del Poggio & John Kitzmiller | |
Performer: | Giulietta Masina & Folco Lulli | |
Directed by | Alberto Lattuada | |
Screenplay by | Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada & Tullio Pinelli | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Cinematography by | Aldo Tonti | |
Story by | Federico Fellini & Tullio Pinelli | |
Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
Product Description:
Filmed in 1948 as SENZA PIETA, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as WITHOUT PITY. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of revenue overseas. The plot is based on an actual postwar dilemma: in Northern Italy, dozens of black American GIs chose to go AWOL rather than return to a racially divided United States. John Kitzmiller plays an occupation soldier named Jerry, who decides to remain in Italy when he falls in love with a blonde, Caucasian local girl named Angela (Carla Del Poggio). Reviewers in 1949 felt that Lattuada exercised poor taste in depicting the interracial romance: while these scenes cannot realistically be described as offensive when seen today, they are still quite frank by 1940s standards. A "regular" in Italian neorealist films, Michigan-born black actor John Kitzmiller went on to win a Cannes Film Festival award for his performance in 1957's SERGEANT JIM; James Bond fans will remember Kitzmiller as "Quarrel" in DR. NO (1962).
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- Sales Rank: 49,792
- UPC: 089859879227
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