Time To Kill

For decades filmmakers had planned to adapt Ennio Flaiano's 1949 novel The Short Cut, aka A Killing Time, for the screen. Jules Dassin was very interested, and Darryl F. Zanuck held the option on the material for almost 20 years. When Franco-Italian producers finally realized the project in 1989 as TIME TO KILL, however, it hardly received any publicity stateside, going quietly to home video in 1991.

Enrico Silvestri (Nicolas Cage) is a young soldier in Ethiopia, a part of the Italian occupation forces who invaded North Africa in 1935. The nation is conquered, but the countryside remains a perilous place. Nevertheless, Enrico develops a toothache ...