American Justice system on trial

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2015)

A good suspense Cold War movie about civilian lawyer, James B. Donovan, who negotiates the release of U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers and American foreign exchange student Frederic Pryor for KGB mole agent Rudolf Abel. Both lawyer James B. Donovan and KGB agent Rudolf Abel had a very interesting careers in real history. It's well worth reading about them. There was also a lot of cloak and dagger/duck and cover tension drama in this movie.
Should we the American people follow the typical lynch mob mentality and hang foreign agent Rudolf Abel or should we let the justice system take its course? Otherwise we would be no different than the Kangaroo courts that the Soviets would set up if they capture one of our agents. That is the question lawyer James Donovan debates about with his peers, his family, and the American public he encounters on the street before U2 pilot Gary Powers gets shot down by S.A.M.'s.
This movie is Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks at their best. It will probably be an instant classic for years to come.