WITHOUT PITY
(Lux Films) FOR those who greatly admire (as I do) the Italian "neo-realists" and deplore the trend of much recent Italian production, it’s good to know that worthwhile Italian films have still to be seen in this country. Without Pity is not a masterpiece as measured. against, say. Bicycle Thieves or Paisa; but its style, world, characters and: compassion compare with theirs. On a train heading for Leghorn a girl who has left home, and for the usual reasons can’t return, saves a Negro soldier’s life. They meet again and his devotion is the life blood of a touching, desperate love as the story moves through army camps and prisons, brothels and black market in early post- _ wargLeghorn. A gloomy subjecty you may say, and I shan’t pretend it’s cheerful; but you'll find-its people and their feelings unusually real. Carla del Poggio is the girl and John Kitzmiller (who was in To Live in Peace) the soldier, and among other players Pierre Claude makes a ffine, sinister, yet not
unsympathetic study of a racketeer. This film, which Alberto Lattuada directed, has been starkly and effectively photographed (by Aldo Tonti, who shot The Miracle) in and around Leghorn, and its impact is héightened by Nino Rota’s expressive score, Don’t miss it if it comes your way.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 26
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217WITHOUT PITY New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 26
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