Town without Pity

To the tune of Gene Pitney singing the Best Song Oscar nominee "Town without Pity" this video is composed of weepie soap opera movie scenes from the 50s such as By Love Possessed, East of Eden, Imitation of Life, Peyton Place, Giant, Rebel without a Cause.
Starring: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore, Troy Donahue, Natalie Wood, Ann Doran, Diane Varsi, Terry Moore

For entertainment purposes only with no copyright infringement intended. Edited by Laurianne Jameson, Lone Star Longhorn Productions

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• Peyton
• Place
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• without
• Pity
• Gene
• Pitney
• Lana
• Turner
• soap
• opera
• Fifties

[sharx35]

The "minx" in your name fits you. Look it up in a good dictionary, then get laid. You need it badly.

[laylacalif]

Getting laid "badly" is what drives a number of people to go to the other side.

[sharx35]

98% of the world is NOT GAY. Most of the time what happens has NOTHING to do with faggotry.

[laylacalif]

Dunno about the WORLD but in the late 40s, Kinsey was able to say it was closer to 10%. Accounting for lying to the surveyors and with more freedom today, the percentage is much higher. Bisexuals make up still another percentage which if known would likely surprise many folks.

[57highland]

It actually has a lot to do with the plot of the movie. Four American soldiers stationed in Germany get drunk and rape a German girl, and their defense lawyer gets some of the local people to testify against her character, a "town without pity". Meanwhile, she's in love with her boyfriend and he too gets ridiculed during the soldiers' trial, so the song is probably given from the point of view of a teen-age girl and boy.

[kiddio1231]

Thank you for sharing. I will always Love Mr. Gene Pitney. His songs always touched me deep in my Soul. RIP Gene.

[JadeTomZ]

one of the all time great recordings...you can feel the fight...between good and evil

[skaha77]

@57highland NOW I remember it. Thanxx

[skaha77]

@laylacalif Rubbish

[skaha77]

@knightoftheroze Yeh and I almost got booted from school because of a 'survey' that was passed around to us students. I got mad as hell and went nuts right in the classroom.. sort of. as in WHO ARE THESE NOSY BUGGERS? I refused to answer the Q and urged the class to do likewise. Gutsy for a 16 yr old, but damn, I HAD no sex life. I was 16... I got the q's to my Dad and he went and raised hell with the school. (Dad was 6-2, 205 and kind of scary if mad) I grad' anyhow, in '63

[knightoftheroze]

Kinsey did not do a lot of the empirical research he claimed to have done.

Much of his "data" was gleaned from conversations he had had with Gregory

Corso and Alan Ginsberg. Kinsey encouraged them to "ask your friends" about

various sexual activities.

[skaha77]

@AGONY62 I saw the movie when i was a kid. Can't remember the plot though.

[skaha77]

@laylacalif Kinsey was a lying bastard. Social engineer. Manipuator of minds.

[jimbowie09]

I liked it. Thanks for the entertainment.

[zaranine]

OLD IS GOLD !!!! this song is one of the most beautiful from the 50's ! this music is just so sexy ^^ at 1 min 57 ! awesome!

[issurchaim]

love diane varsi