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Director Kramer has stacked seven portentous names (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift) above his portentous title-four of them are grossly miscast, but the customers won't realize that until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller...
Defense Attorney Schell is permitted a pulverizing passage of eloquence in which he reminds the court (and the world) that in varying degrees the Soviet Union, the United States, the Vatican and even Winston Churchill (who as late as 1937 praised Hitler's "courage, perseverance and vital force'') must share with the German people the blame for Nazi times and crimes. At another point Schell makes a withering deprecation of the victor's right to judge the vanquished. "Is Hiroshima," he wonders, "the superior morality?" And there are several scenes of punishing mockery in which...
...Harvard sailing team staved off late rallies by Coast Guard and Princeton to win the Schell Trophy at M.I.T. last Sunday, and established itself as one of the top squads in New England...
...Schell meet, skippers Ford and Lehmann paced the Crimson yachtsmen to an impressive 23-point lead during the first day of competition. The pair each had two firsts, two seconds, one fourth, and one fifth Saturday, and tied for top individual honors...
...surely to invite suspicions of sensationalism and feelings of repugnance. Yet if the men who made The Mark had any sensational intentions, they are not to be seen on the screen. The film's attitude is calm, objective, sympathetic to the criminal-though not to his crime. Actress Schell and Actor Steiger give restrained and intelligent performances; Actor Stuart Whitman, known heretofore as just a passing ripple on Hollywood's Muscle Beach, is perspicaciously cast as the Cain-marked protagonist; and Director Guy (The Angry Silence) Green unerringly walks a tightrope of good taste across the snake...