Powys Dewhurst

(Spoilers) This is a must. One of the 5 best science fiction films of the 1950s. This is one of my favourite films and one of the greatest in cinema history. It's beautiful, haunting, horrifying and stays with you long after. Scott Carey's fate is one of eternal loneliness and a fate far worse than death. He's the forgotten lost man in a vicious primitive world and he's more alive than he's ever been. By the end I'm near tears: "“I was continuing to shrink, to become… What? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close, the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens, the universe, worlds beyond number. God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of Man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon Nature. That existence begins and ends is Man’s conception, not Nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away and in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero.” “I still exist.”

Judgement at Nuremberg has always been one of the greats. Stanley Kramer never shied away from topical films that shined a light on the foolishness and ugliness of humanity. Race, the Holocaust, Nuclear War. Judgement at Nuremberg is a powerful early film that deals with the atrocities of World War 2. Stanley Kramer is one of the greatest directors and producers ever. Spielberg hailed him for the effect he had on the conscience of the world. Like Inherit The Wind it's a courtroom drama. And a riveting one. Note: Montgomery Clift and Judy Garland's performances.