Night Without Pity is a 1961 British crime film directed by Theodore Zichy and starring Sarah Lawson, Neil McCallum, Alan Edwards and Michael Browning.
[1] Crooks O'Brien and Randall break into Diana Martin's home to steal her husband's factory keys.
Diana is alone with her small son, who, frightened by the intruders, falls from his bedroom window and is concussed.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: " A weak script – which strains credulity even on the level of melodrama – crudely realised in cramped settings melodrama"[2] Kine Weekly wrote: "The story is close to events that have happened and the small-time crooks are typically base and inefficient, but neither the scriptwriter nor the director have paid enough attention to probability and the plot is badly frayed with loose ends.
Some tension is created when the housewife is threatened by the crooks, but it is dissipated by interpolated shots of the husband playing gin rummy with his old mum, and of subsidiary and largely non-essential characters in a sleazy, all-night café.