This gripping, provocative and powerful film sheds a controversial light on the darkest era in modern history. Nominated for eleven Oscars including Best Picture, 'Judgment at Nuremburg' contains searing performances by an all-star cast that includes Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. American judge, Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy), presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalising" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilisation and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career. His actions - and those of the other trial participants - make for fascinating, poignant and continuously exciting entertainment!
Directed by
Stanley Kramer
Written by
Montgomery Clift (uncredited); Abby Mann (story and screenplay).
Starring
Spencer Tracy (Chief Judge Dan Haywood); Burt Lancaster (Dr. Ernst Janning); Richard Widmark (Col. Tad Lawson); Marlene Dietrich (Mrs. Bertholt); Maximilian Schell (Hans Rolfe); Judy Garland (Mrs. Irene Hoffman Wallner); Montgomery Clift (Rudolph Petersen); Ed Binns (Sen. Burkette (as Edward Binns)); Werner Klemperer (Emil Hahn); Torben Meyer (Werner Lampe); Martin Brandt (Friedrich Hofstetter); William Shatner (Capt. Harrison Byers); Kenneth MacKenna (Judge Kenneth Norris); Alan Baxter (Brig. Gen. Matt Merrin); Ray Teal (Judge Curtiss Ives). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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