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"Judgment at Nuremberg" is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials .
Dec 18, 2020 · Playhouse 90: Judgement At Nuremberg (CBS, 1959) by. Playhouse 90. Usage. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Topics. Nuremburg, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Nazism, War Crimes, Teleplays, Dramas, Courtroom drama. Live from Television City in Hollywood, April 16, 1959. Starring Claude. Rains, Paul Lukas, Maximilian Schell , and many others. In the later.
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Judgment at Nuremberg: Directed by George Roy Hill. With Claude Rains, Paul Lukas, Maximilian Schell, Martin Milner. In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- George Roy Hill
- 1959-04-16
Although these shows, along with Requiem and Judgment at Nuremberg, were enough to ensure the historical importance of Playhouse 90, the program also stood out because of its emergence in the "film era" of television broadcasting evolution.
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Sep 14, 2016 · Playhouse 90 (CBS, 1956-1960) was one of the most celebrated examples of the midcentury phenomenon called the anthology drama. Beginning in radio and moving to television, anthologies were comprised of individual, self-contained plays with different settings, characters, and scenarios each week.
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Playhouse 90: “Judgment at Nuremberg” CBS, 04/16/1959 Later adapted into Stanley Kramer's acclaimed motion picture of 1961, this live docudrama expanded Playhouse 90 's studio canvas to powerful effect through the integration of archival footage, including images of Nazi atrocities.
The story centers on one American judge (Claude Rains) who is one of three judges presiding over a trial of several German judges who perverted justice in order to please the new Nazi leaders as well as to 'help restore Germany'. The story begins just before the trial and ends just after the sentencing of these accused judges.
