Stanley Kramer directs Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark in this true courtroom drama investigating Weimar Republic’s judges complicity with the Nazi regime after Hitler took power.

A serious piece of heavy, epic drama. The Holocaust, eugenics, justice, post-war healing. A delivery system for massive names delivering A grade performances. Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift and Marlene Dietrich all wow in smaller showy roles as people whose lives have been irreparably shattered in different ways by the regime. Transcending their stunt casting with emotionally effective star power revivals. It ain’t an easy ride but Judgment At Nuremberg is never feels stage bound or merely filmed theatre. Morally complex and even handed. Weighty but undeniably good for you.

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Perfect Double Bill: Judgment At Nuremberg is enough!

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