Town Without Pity

A courtroom drama with intense underlying social messages spread throughout, TOWN WITHOUT PITY bites off more than it can chew as it simultaneously attempts to preach against capital punishment, uncover the prejudices in a small Teutonic town, and jab at the boorish louts who occupied Germany after the war. The small burg of Neustadt is the setting. A quartet of American soldiers, Sutton, Blake, Sondock, and Jaeckel, are spending a drunken afternoon in the woods outside the city. Meanwhile, teenage Kaufmann is wearing a brief bikini and having a brief date with her boy friend, young Lippert. She'd like to make love to him but he is inexperienced and tentative. She ...