Film Friday: "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961)
To celebrate Judy Garland's 93th birthday, which was on Wednesday, this week on "Film Friday" I bring you one of my favorite films of hers. Oddly enough, it is not a musical. Original release poster Directed by Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) centers on a military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany , in which four German judges and prosecut ors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in the at rocities committed under the Na zi r egime. During the long weeks of the trial, American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) tries to determine whether the German people really understood what Nazi leader Ad olf Hitler stood for . In doing so, he talks with a number of Germans who have different pers pective on the wa r, including the aristocratic Frau Bertholt (Marlene Dietrich), the widow of German general who was executed by the Allies after the earlier trials . The prosecuting attorney, Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark...