‘Time Limit’: Beneath the Admission of Guilt

POWs during the Korean War raise questions when returning home in Karl Malden’s directorial debut.

Maj. Harry Cargill (Richard Basehart), in “Time Limit.” United Artists

NR | 1h 36m | Drama, War | 1957

North Korea has long had a reputation as a hellscape that no one in their right mind would want to live in and, let alone, visit. Long held under an iron-fisted communist dictatorship, where groupthink and self-censorship are a way of life, the hermit kingdom deals swiftly and ruthlessly with any form of even the slightest dissent among its citizenry.