Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 Directed by Stanley Kramer
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The event the world will never forget.
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American film based on the trials of 4 Nazi judges in Nuremberg Germany in 1948 by an American court.
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Tracy. Lancaster. Dietrich. Clift. Garland. Just look at those names for a second. When a cast is so loaded that you can refer to the top five billed players only by their last names, you're in some rarified air. Then throw in Maximillian Schell, whose performance is better than all of them, and you've got a once-in-a-generation level of acting talent on display. Top it all off with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Abby Mann about a bunch of Nazi fellow travelers getting their legal comeuppance, and we could be debating the film's standing as a masterpiece. And while Judgment at Nuremberg is certainly entertaining and rightly remembered as a top-notch legal drama, its highlights pretty much begin and end with…
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Wow...What a film. I was so into this and got lost in the story and characters that the over 3 hour running time felt like nothing. And that's really saying something for me because I usually look at the clock whenever I watch a film that is that long, but I never did for this one. The cast is huge and the story is one we all learned about in history classes back in school.
I thought this film was made at a very interesting time in Hollywood. You have lots of veteran actors who peeked in the 30's 40's and early 50's, but by the start of the 60's you had rebel filmmakers making films that had drugs and…
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(。♥‿♥。) Maximilian Schell (。♥‿♥。)
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(。♥‿♥。) Maximilian Schell (。♥‿♥。)
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The start of this film dragged on and I did not care for it; however, as it got in further and more details came out, it caught my attention. By the time that I have written this, it was been a while since I watched it so I cannot recall every actor. There were several of them that were quite notable. In particularly, the German attorney trying to defend the four Nazi judges was noteworthy. So the cast is good.
I liked the camera work as a whole. It was fluid as it moved around quite a bit, even though it is confided into this room. The problem was that it was repetitive as this was more than three hours…
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Spencer Tracey at his best (though, when wasn't he?)..
along with an incredible cast (Marlene Detriech, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, and more), all turning in great performances. -
One of the best acting ensembles I've ever seen.
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Had i known i was going to be watching 3 hours of courtroom action, would i have decided to give this one a miss? Probably. Would i have made a mistake? Absobloodylutely! The film has a stellar cast, with names like Tracy, Lancaster, Garland and even a young William Shatner. I cannot fault anyone on their performance.
Judge Haywood is sent to Germany after WW2 to put on trial those judges who sentenced people under the Nazi regime. It is his job to decide whether these judges are guilty of anything or not. After all, they were just following the laws laid out my the Nazis. As each separate story and case is put forward, you are left thinking they…
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Tracy. Lancaster. Dietrich. Clift. Garland. Just look at those names for a second. When a cast is so loaded that you can refer to the top five billed players only by their last names, you're in some rarified air. Then throw in Maximillian Schell, whose performance is better than all of them, and you've got a once-in-a-generation level of acting talent on display. Top it all off with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Abby Mann about a bunch of Nazi fellow travelers getting their legal comeuppance, and we could be debating the film's standing as a masterpiece. And while Judgment at Nuremberg is certainly entertaining and rightly remembered as a top-notch legal drama, its highlights pretty much begin and end with…
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Montgomery Clift >>> Maximilian Schell >> Burt Lancaster > Spencer Tracy > William Shatner >> Judy Garland ...
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Actor's showcase ahoy!
Schell is imperious. His pragmatism is so commendable that I was physically applauding every time he beamed a shit-eating grin in Spencer Tracy's direction. A movie told entirely from his perspective would have rocked. A few exceptional monologues and Monty Clift aside this is about as debilitating as traversing quicksand. -
3 hours of wonderful performances. It may not be the most exciting film ever, but with a cast made up of Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark, and Judy Garland it is entirely worth the watch. Schell won the academy award for best actor for this film and for good reason. Montgomery Clift has a role amounting to maybe a bit more than 10 minutes, but his performance never ceases to blow me away, especially when it is known that he was so drunken and out of it by that stage in his career that he ended up ad-libbing some of his performance.