Judgment at Nuremberg

Name: Judgment at Nuremberg
Genre: Drama, War
Released: December 18, 1961
Duration: 186 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Kenneth MacKenna, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell

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United Artists | Release Date: December 18, 1961 | TV-14

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Kenneth MacKenna, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Werner Klemperer, William Shatner

Summary: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

Director: Stanley Kramer

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 186 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Though unrelentingly bleak, Judgment at Nuremberg is absorbing from beginning to end. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

On the point of the fundamental issue in the Nazi war guilt trials that were held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, Stanley Kramer, the producer-director, has pinned a powerful, persuasive film. The major weakness, perhaps, of the whole thing is that it is inevitably compressive and sometimes glib. The strength and wonder of it is that it manages to say so much that still needs to be said. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

There are no surprises in the direction, and Abby Mann's screenplay plays the expected tunes, but there's enough conviction on display to reward a patient spectator. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Judgment at Nuremberg is twice the size of the concise, stirring and rewarding production on television's Playhouse 90 early in 1959. A faster tempo by producer-director Stanley Kramer and more trenchant script editing would have punched up picture. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Gavin Lambert summed it up: An all-star concentration-camp drama, with special guest-victim appearances.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Grandstanding 1961 courtroom drama about the Nazi war trials, courtesy of producer-director Stanley Kramer, breast-beating screenwriter Abby Mann, and an all-star cast—watchable enough on its own terms, but insufferably glib next to something like Shoah. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

On the whole, Director Kramer has almost arrogantly exceeded his judicial warrant. He has also crudely mismanaged both actors and camera, and has carelessly permitted several reels of fat to accumulate around the movie's middle. Read full review

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MegaEike

Sep 18, 2019

Should you be judged by following the law? This film shows the dilemma faced during the trials after WWII. What should've being taken into consideration? What is the right thing to do? Is it worth spending 3 hours watching it? Yes it is, for sure.

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amheretojudge

Mar 14, 2018

i don't make wagers..

Judgement At Nuremberg Despite of its overlong runtime, there is a lot of material in it to feed off the audience for more than 3 hours. Abby Mann's adaptation might be the only strongest link in this feature excluding Stanley Kramer; it is a bit loose on depictingi don't make wagers..

Judgement At Nuremberg

Despite of its overlong runtime, there is a lot of material in it to feed off the audience for more than 3 hours. Abby Mann's adaptation might be the only strongest link in this feature excluding Stanley Kramer; it is a bit loose on depicting the intensity and the emotions behind all the drama and the editing too seems liberal (they could have narrowed it down to around 2 hours). On performance level, it holds up the expectation and delivers without flinching by great actors like Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell and Montgomery Clift. Judgement At Nuremberg remains true to its nature and loyal to the tone of the feature till the last frame which possibly is the only reason to encounter this experience for it lacks gripping screenplay, better editing and execution of a scene.… Expand

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