Judgement At Nuremburg

[jimmy_jack_james]

anyone ever see this movie made in 1961 about 4 nazi leaders being prosecuted in 1948 at nuremburg. spencer tracy stars as the judge.

very good movie. very important movie too.

[Exxley]

Hi Jimmy

well, I managed to get myself a good copy of that movie last summer, and that was a very brilliant performance by Spencer Tracy as you said. I still remember the moment when he told Burt Lancaster that he lost all kind of rightness the first time he sentenced to death a man that he knew to be innocent.
The rest of the cast: Lancaster, Schell, Dietrich, Widmark, Clift, are also very good.

[Kiwiwriter]

Great movie, well-acted, well-written, well-done...but fiction.

Most importantly, the movie is not about the first Nuremberg Trial, the 21 senior war criminals, held by the four Allied powers. This is about one of the many follow-up trials, convened by each occupying power, in this case, the United States. It's similar to the actual trials the Americans held...Maximilian Schell plays a knock-off of Flottenrichter Otto Kranzbuhler, who skillfully defended Doenitz and later Alfried Krupp, at his American trial. Richard Widmark is a version of American Prosecutor Telford Taylor, who also defended victims of McCarthyism later.

Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy are brilliant, as well.

[jimmy_jack_james]

lancaster was in another wwii movie that was on directv today. dont know what it was called. he did something with the railroad. anyone know?

[Exxley]

(Lt. Jimmy @ Dec 24 2005, 04:59 AM) [post=43606]lancaster was in another wwii movie that was on directv today. dont know what it was called. he did something with the railroad. anyone know?
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Yep. The movie name is "The Train"

Burt Lancaster is playing Paul Labiche (doesnt sound really French though, rather Canadian), a Resistance fighter who has to stop a German train loaded with stolen art treasures, without damaging the cargo of course.