TIME LIMIT (1957) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Karl Malden
Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Rip Torn,
Dolores Michaels, Martin Balsam, June Lockhart,
Carl Benton Reid, Kigh Dheigh, Yale Wexler
A well-acted Cold War drama starring Richard Widmark as an Army lawyer investigating the case of an ex-POW (Richard Basehart) who's about to be court-martialed for treason. A lot of it revolves around people making judgments based on preconceived notions of the truth and resisting any thorough (or inconvenient) examination of the facts, an issue that resonates just as much now as it did in the 1950s. Some of this anticipates "The Manchurian Candidate". Widmark produced. Malden's only credit as a director.
Rip Torn
(1931-2019)
