I really don't know what to say. I agree with what your sentiments. There was so much greatness in the early years (FIrst half century) of Hollywood; great performances, great personalities, great daring.

It shouldn't be forgotten.

Last week, one of my local stations played the original Judgement at Nuremberg. What a cast!!!

Directed by
Stanley Kramer

Writers
Montgomery Clift Uncredited
Abby Mann Story and screenplay

Cast - in credits order (verified as complete)
Spencer Tracy ... Chief Judge Dan Haywood
Burt Lancaster ... Dr. Ernst Janning (defendant judge)
Richard Widmark ... Col. Tad Lawson (prosecuting attorney)
Marlene Dietrich ... Mrs. Bertholt
Maximilian Schell ... Hans Rolfe (lead defense attorney)
Judy Garland ... Mrs. Irene Hoffman Wallner
Montgomery Clift ... Rudolph Petersen (prosecution witness)
Edward Binns ... Sen. Burkette
Werner Klemperer ... Emil Hahn (defendant judge)
Torben Meyer ... Werner Lampe (defendant judge)
Martin Brandt ... Friedrich Hofstetter (defendant judge)
William Shatner ... Capt. Harrison Byers (Haywood's aide)
Kenneth MacKenna ... Judge Kenneth Norris
Alan Baxter ... Brig. Gen. Matt Merrin
Ray Teal ... Judge Curtiss Ives
Virginia Christine ... Mrs. Halbestadt (Haywood's housekeeper)
Ben Wright ... Halbestadt (Haywood's butler)
Joseph Bernard ... Maj. Abe Radnitz (Lawson's assistant)
John Wengraf ... Dr. Karl Wieck (former Minister of Justice)
Karl Swenson ... Dr. Heinrich Geuter (Feldenstein's lawyer)
Howard Caine ... Hugo Wallner (Irene's husband)
Otto Waldis ... Pohl (Nazi exterminator)
Olga Fabian ... Mrs. Elsa Lindnow (witness in Feldenstein case)
Paul Busch ... Schmidt, (Haywood's chauffeur)
Bernard Kates ... Max Perkins (UP reproter)

Look at the top of that list. Amazing and yet, kids today just don't get to see, unless their parents forces them to watch public broadcasting, how truly brilliant these people were.

Aitch, you found a board that appreciates quality, as well as guilty pleasures :lol but most of all, we really have respect for the medium here, or at least I like to believe that.

I can't thank you enough for these stories. It brings it all back, how film has had so many glorious moments...absolutely glorious...and all because the people involved loved what they did and strives to be as creative and inventive as they could, while doing it.

BAM is Dead. About Time!...Now who's throwing the Party?