Word: nuremberg
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...senses and emotions of a character through cutting, just as romantic abstraction allow a Sternberg to light experimentally with a daring inconceivable in plainer films. Themes and preoccupations as serious as these would be substantially unbearable treated in the context of everyday life--all films would resemble Judgment At Nuremberg. And, just as Poe and Hawthorne made their statements through the heightened reality of romance, the master film-makers are invariably liberated by the specialized contexts and specific characteristics of their chosen genres...
Ford's first words barred an entire area of potential defense material: the legality of the Vietnam war. Ford later elaborated his ruling to exclude from the trial both the Nuremberg principles and any attempt to question the validity of executive action taken without Congressional approval. The defense attorneys could not have been overly surprised, since American courts have always shunned issues of war and peace as being unsuited for judicial inquiry. In fact, sticking to more established lines of defense probably gives the five men a better chance of acquittal. But anyone who hoped Spock might be martyring himself...
Pike also called for a reconvening of the Nuremberg trials to punish U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Claiming that he wasn't a pacifist, he did not condemn Viet Cong terrorism. "Freedom fighters have to be rough," he said...
...Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and for that distinction a picture worth seeing; but on all other counts it stinks. Stanley Kramer has degenerated from one of Hollywood's more interesting bad moviemakers into one of its most maudlin. The crude but somehow compelling live-TV quality of Judgment at Nuremberg and Ship of Fools, painted with crayon and musicalized by DeVol, blessed with Sidney Poitier, reveals Kramer to be an exceedingly dull thinker and hardly any artist...
Then came Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg, still the most polished of his creations, cast Tracy as a New England judge set adrift in the land of war criminals and called on to apply his raw honesty to the ambiguities of complicit guilt and collective responsibility. Tracy exuded New Englandisms and was honest as a rock; but he could carry it no further, because Kramer's picture never achieved even the subtlety of a good Playhouse 90 (Judgment at Nuremberg), incidentally, like Ship of Fools, improves measurably when shown on the home screen). Worse...