"The Heroes of Telemark" (1965) is director Anthony Mann's WWII drama about the Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation. There's no happy ending in a "Town Without Pity," but Gene Pitney's recording of the Oscar-nominated title song was a huge hit. Bowren in "The Dirty Dozen") and Mal Sondock (a guy with a short career that you've never heard of).ĭouglas tries to get the men a long term of hard labor instead of the death penalty and is forced to attack the victim even as he knows what he's doing is morally despicable - but also required in his job as a defense attorney. Steve Garrett, assigned to defend the four troops played by Frank Sutton (Gunny Vince Carter from "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." in a terrifying role), Robert Blake (the "Baretta" guy who was later tried for allegedly killing his wife), Richard Jaeckel (Sgt. The incident is terrifying on its face but almost equally disturbing is how the movie presents it as something that just happens during a military occupation.ĭouglas plays Maj. In the days after WWII, four American servicemen rape a local German girl. "Town Without Pity" (1961) is a particularly bleak story of the military justice system.
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