Spencer Tracy Was Magnificent

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2011)

Stanley Kramer had a great relationship with the a star considered the finest actor of film. I know that is a lofty sentence but I do feel All American Spencer Tracy was and still is the greatest of Actors. Inherit The Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner are the 4 films in the Kramer-Tracy partnership. Tracy died as a first billed star, and never reduced himself to "cameos"
Judgement At Nuremberg is a brilliant film and stars Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Montgomery Clift,Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich. All give superb performances of this film recounting the Nazi terror and the trial of those who perpetrated this evil. Judy Garland was nominated but lost. Applause goes to Dietrich in particular for her bravery as a German -born woman who challenged the Nazi's. Above all is Spencer Tracy and his monumental acting at the end of the picture in particular is worthy of acclaim as one of the greatest sequences. It is legend that Tracy delivered his speech in one take to the resounding cheers of many at Universal where the film was shot who watched from the set and others who came over from their stages to watch the consummate actor in action.
Max Schell won the Oscar for this superb work and thanked Spencer Tracy for his support. I would have voted the Oscar to Tracy.
I highly recommend this movie.
David Barra Los Angeles