One of the most amazing speeches ever written in a movie - both in the way it was written and delivered. It doesn't get any more meaningful than this.
One of the things in this movie that I find deplorable is the portrayal of the Jewish guy, the kindest man she had ever met, oh this 65 yo angelic man had a 16yo girl on his lap because he saw her as a daughter, he bought her chocolates and flowers, because she was like a daughter, and he let her live for free in his appartment building because he saw her as a daughter and he kissed her like a daughter! Yes every single Jew was the finest person in Germany.
@tarstarkusz Certainly, millions of people didn't deserveto die, and maybe this guy didn't either (I think it's fictional anyway), but the propaganda in this movie is there and it detracts from an otherwise great film.
Perhaps WW2 was the last GOOD WAR (aka Studs Terkel - sociologist) or perhaps it is the post-war continuing constant revisionism of anyone who views, reads or researches WW2 including the immediate 5 years post war war criminals trials. This early 1960's movie epitomizes in part the post-war early baby boom idealism and hopefulness for a seemingly omnipotent USA holding up like the Statue of Liberty the torch of liberal humanism and hence the interventional justifications.
Those who have such a quick and detrimental outlook on Guantanamo Bay know NOTHING of the articles of war (yes, war) and POWs. These are not merely foreigners taken from their land ( as stated), but captured enemy combatants, who have attacked, or directly aided those, who have killed military personnel and civilians, within their own lands and ours.... and we've already seen that those which are released return to fighting. This is not an 'ethnic round-up', these are enemy combatants.
@afretired04 How can say that when you are unaware of any evidence brought against them because the trials are secret? If they were tried in a public trial with a defense attorney, access to evidence etc, THEN you could call them terrorists. I call them the accused, only I don't know the accusation and in many/most cases, neither do they.
@ciroalb3 Oh yes. Just type "William Shatner" and "Spencer Tracy" in youtube. Apparently, Shatner gave Tracy a well meant but misinterpreted comment about screen actors being able to handle lengthy dialogue. Tracy wasn't amused. Shatner seemed pretty impressed by Tracy, though.
@mart77scole I am aware of the Wannsee Conference, and what an atrocity is. But I never thought I would live to see the day that the United States would begin kidnapping the citizens of foreign countries. I never thought it would began operating gulags where people were held without charge or trial, under torture. I thought that its citizens would rise up in wrath at such a thing being done in their names. I was wrong.
Watching this film was a reminder of how far we have fallen.
One of the most amazing speeches ever written in a movie - both in the way it was written and delivered. It doesn't get any more meaningful than this.
71Molina 2 weeks ago
One of the things in this movie that I find deplorable is the portrayal of the Jewish guy, the kindest man she had ever met, oh this 65 yo angelic man had a 16yo girl on his lap because he saw her as a daughter, he bought her chocolates and flowers, because she was like a daughter, and he let her live for free in his appartment building because he saw her as a daughter and he kissed her like a daughter! Yes every single Jew was the finest person in Germany.
tarstarkusz 1 month ago
@tarstarkusz Certainly, millions of people didn't deserveto die, and maybe this guy didn't either (I think it's fictional anyway), but the propaganda in this movie is there and it detracts from an otherwise great film.
tarstarkusz 1 month ago
manmade laws are not above morality
BeantownJim 6 months ago
Perhaps WW2 was the last GOOD WAR (aka Studs Terkel - sociologist) or perhaps it is the post-war continuing constant revisionism of anyone who views, reads or researches WW2 including the immediate 5 years post war war criminals trials. This early 1960's movie epitomizes in part the post-war early baby boom idealism and hopefulness for a seemingly omnipotent USA holding up like the Statue of Liberty the torch of liberal humanism and hence the interventional justifications.
hospitalship1 9 months ago
Those who have such a quick and detrimental outlook on Guantanamo Bay know NOTHING of the articles of war (yes, war) and POWs. These are not merely foreigners taken from their land ( as stated), but captured enemy combatants, who have attacked, or directly aided those, who have killed military personnel and civilians, within their own lands and ours.... and we've already seen that those which are released return to fighting. This is not an 'ethnic round-up', these are enemy combatants.
afretired04 11 months ago
@afretired04 How can say that when you are unaware of any evidence brought against them because the trials are secret? If they were tried in a public trial with a defense attorney, access to evidence etc, THEN you could call them terrorists. I call them the accused, only I don't know the accusation and in many/most cases, neither do they.
christo930 7 months ago
wonder if anyone has ever asked Shatner what it was like to see Tracy in action?
ciroalb3 1 year ago
@ciroalb3 Oh yes. Just type "William Shatner" and "Spencer Tracy" in youtube. Apparently, Shatner gave Tracy a well meant but misinterpreted comment about screen actors being able to handle lengthy dialogue. Tracy wasn't amused. Shatner seemed pretty impressed by Tracy, though.
71Molina 3 months ago
"When the grasp of the enemy is at the throat... then it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy."
And so we have Guantanamo Bay, and "extraordinary rendition".
We should all be in that dock.
puffin02 1 year ago
@puffin02 Try watching "Conspiracy at Wannsee" which is available on "YouTube" and see whether you maintain the same opinion, just a thought....
mart77scole 1 year ago
@mart77scole I am aware of the Wannsee Conference, and what an atrocity is. But I never thought I would live to see the day that the United States would begin kidnapping the citizens of foreign countries. I never thought it would began operating gulags where people were held without charge or trial, under torture. I thought that its citizens would rise up in wrath at such a thing being done in their names. I was wrong.
Watching this film was a reminder of how far we have fallen.
puffin02 1 year ago
truly masterful
Gedemondas 1 year ago
One of Spencer Tracy's finest performances, if not the best in my opinion.
fountainpenuser 1 year ago
Incredible Film!!
DMaustrap 1 year ago
Spencer Tracy is completely mesmerizing.
hemill85 1 year ago 7
The judge's final statement should be shown in schools
silentobservor 1 year ago 10