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I watched this one on cable two nights ago, the only time I've viewed it since I was in high school (a history class assignment). I'd been avoiding it ever since and had forgotten why, but now I remember. Montgomery Clift's portrayal of Rudolph Petersen, a sterilization victim of the Nazi judges' public 'health' decisions, broke my heart...and did it all over again on Wednesday night's viewing. He is destroyed on the witness stand by Maximilian Schell's interrogations concerning his (and his mother's) mental competency. I don't think "Judgment At Nuremberg" is one of the great films, but that particular scene was one of the most memorable and horrifying I've ever watched.In 1984, during the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, I was serving as a juror on a civil suit and during three days of deliberations the mental competency of one of the jurors was brought up as an issue, NOT by the lawyers, but by his fellow jurors. I was so ashamed and disgusted at the way they treated him and how cruel people can be to others who are different, especially when money is at stake.
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Watched it and taped it for the collection. Any movie with Tracy is a classic in my book. About the best male actor in the history of film. One forgets one is watching an actor with lines when watching Tracy. Particularly special in this film is the sentencing scene, and of course the closing scene with Lancaster. Fabulous.
Must have been the same broadcast we watched, and I started a brief discussion of the justice done there on the outside - you might want to visit it, as some guys made interesting points.The mark of a great film is that no matter now many times you watch it it keeps producing strong impact. In that respect the Judgement is wearing off for me. Every time I watch it I notice more imperfection, and the last time it looked almost plywood in some spots. Some acting stiff and not too convincing.
Still - a VERY important film, simply perhaps that the movie-making part was secondary to the subject. The shocking documentaty footage that I must have seen thousand times before remains shocking and the main thrust - razor sharp.
And as far as the exit music... I can't say enough. I once recorded it on a cassette and even without a film it was bone chilling. My wife would not want it in the house, so I gave it to a friend of mine, who lost it.
That music has the strongest emotional effect, and given the recent discussion in Music Lane I guess some folks would not see anything wrong with playing it over the Israeli radio on Sunday morning. I certainly don't see it that way.
It seems to me that the music part was shorter in that broadcast - do you think so? Seemed to be about a half of what I recall, or am I simply getting old?
All in all, I am glad that film was made and is still shown. I hope it will continue being shown and it must be a mandatory viewing for the young - perhaps during those oh-so-short-and-only-getting-shorter hours allocated to WWII in most American schools.
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