Without Each Other (AKA Pity Me Not) Cult actor, Tony Anthony, plays Sam, a young man who was brought up in the circus by his father. After the father's accidental death, Sam locates his mother in a small town to inform her of the death of her husband and maybe reconcile as mother and son. The townspeople however have other ideas regarding the mother, a local eccentric who hasn't paid her property taxes. The townspeople intend to have her declared mentally incompetent, and a wealthy citizen wants to take away her house for his son and his girlfriend to live after they get married.
This is one of those movies that make you wonder what happens to the characters after the film is over. I acknowledge that is just a movie, get over it. However, this film makes me wonder about the after effects.
(SPOILERS) The townspeople are hostile to the young man, Sam. The town clerk refuses to accept the money needed to pay the property taxes; the Sheriff won't help the young man, and the son of the wealthy man in town instigates a brawl with Sam, and the townspeople don't even step in and stop the fight. Later in the film, as expected, the girlfriend of the rich man's son falls in love with Sam, and asks her father, the Sheriff, for assistance in helping the mother of Sam with her problems, and with the townspeople. During one fateful night, the rich man's son and his friends cause a ruckus at the home of Sam's mother, and cause her to have a fatal heart attack. All of a sudden, the townspeople come to the aid of Sam in helping pick a burial plot, etc. Sam turns his back on the townspeople, buries his mother on the land her house is, and returns to the circus. The girlfriend mentions "She will see Sam at the circus" As Sam walks away into the sunset back to the circus.
I wonder what will happen next. The Sheriff makes mention about the responsibility of the son who caused the death of Sam's mother, the rich father already has a defense planned, and what will the townspeople think about their part in this tragedy. And what will happen to the house? Will the town still sell the house at the auction? Who would buy the house with the controversy about how the house was acquired?
Will Sam go back to the circus as very embittered young man? After all, he lost both his mother and father. If he stays with the circus and by chance he gets married to some woman (certainly not the daughter of the Sheriff) will he make sure whatever happened between his mother and father never ever happens between him and his wife? If he has children will they never have to go through what he went through as a young man?
I take it from the looks of the low budget (you gotta love the use of Pathecolor), this film may be an adaptation of a locally written and produced play with the townspeople as well as Summer stock performers putting on a show. Get a load of the character that is to assess the value of the items for the auction. The overuse of stage make-up almost had me in stitches
I was able to buy a PAL VHS title of this film under the title, Pity Me Not, and had it transferred to NTSC. I wasn't disappointed. I guess after this film, Tony Anthony went to Hollywood and couldn't get his foot in the door, and then relocated to Italy and the rest is cult film/star history.
This is one of those movies that make you wonder what happens to the characters after the film is over. I acknowledge that is just a movie, get over it. However, this film makes me wonder about the after effects.
(SPOILERS) The townspeople are hostile to the young man, Sam. The town clerk refuses to accept the money needed to pay the property taxes; the Sheriff won't help the young man, and the son of the wealthy man in town instigates a brawl with Sam, and the townspeople don't even step in and stop the fight. Later in the film, as expected, the girlfriend of the rich man's son falls in love with Sam, and asks her father, the Sheriff, for assistance in helping the mother of Sam with her problems, and with the townspeople. During one fateful night, the rich man's son and his friends cause a ruckus at the home of Sam's mother, and cause her to have a fatal heart attack. All of a sudden, the townspeople come to the aid of Sam in helping pick a burial plot, etc. Sam turns his back on the townspeople, buries his mother on the land her house is, and returns to the circus. The girlfriend mentions "She will see Sam at the circus" As Sam walks away into the sunset back to the circus.
I wonder what will happen next. The Sheriff makes mention about the responsibility of the son who caused the death of Sam's mother, the rich father already has a defense planned, and what will the townspeople think about their part in this tragedy. And what will happen to the house? Will the town still sell the house at the auction? Who would buy the house with the controversy about how the house was acquired?
Will Sam go back to the circus as very embittered young man? After all, he lost both his mother and father. If he stays with the circus and by chance he gets married to some woman (certainly not the daughter of the Sheriff) will he make sure whatever happened between his mother and father never ever happens between him and his wife? If he has children will they never have to go through what he went through as a young man?
I take it from the looks of the low budget (you gotta love the use of Pathecolor), this film may be an adaptation of a locally written and produced play with the townspeople as well as Summer stock performers putting on a show. Get a load of the character that is to assess the value of the items for the auction. The overuse of stage make-up almost had me in stitches
I was able to buy a PAL VHS title of this film under the title, Pity Me Not, and had it transferred to NTSC. I wasn't disappointed. I guess after this film, Tony Anthony went to Hollywood and couldn't get his foot in the door, and then relocated to Italy and the rest is cult film/star history.
