Town Without Pity

Town Without Pity German Stadt ohne Mitleid is a 1961 American, Austrian and West German international coproduction drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. Produced by The Mirisch Corporation, the film stars Kirk Douglas, Christine Kaufmann, and E. G. Marshall.

Four somewhat drunk American soldiers leave a bar where Town Without Pity is playing on the jukebox in occupied Germany after World War II. Meanwhile, sixteenyearold Karin Steinhof Christine Kaufmann has a quarrel with her 19yearold boyfriend, Frank Borgmann, in the countryside. She leaves to change out of her wet bikini, and is taken by Sergeant Chuck Snyder Frank Sutton and gang raped by him, Corporal Birdwell Scott Richard Jaeckel, Private Joey Haines Mal Sondock and Corporal Jim Larkin Robert Blake. When Frank hears her screams for help, he runs to her, but is knocked out. After the four men are done, the guiltridden Larkin lingers behind he covers the girl with his shirt before leaving with the others.The soldiers are quickly apprehended. To appease the anger and outrage of the Germans, General Stafford orders that their court martial be held in public in the local high school gymnasium. The prosecutor, Colonel Jerome Pakenham E. G. Marshall, seeks the death penalty. Major Steve Garrett Kirk Douglas is assigned to defend them. After interviewing his clients, Garrett tries to plea bargain for long sentences at hard labor in an attempt to save their lives, but Pakenham has such a strong case, he turns it down. Garrett starts investigating, questioning the residents. He is followed by Inge Koerner Barbara Rtting, a hostile German reporter from what Garrett considers to be a scandalseeking newspaper. ........

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