As I write this, I am 64 years old. There are two movies I watched as a boy of perhaps 10 or 11, that struck emotional chords inside of me, and which have remained with me all of my life. "To Kill A Mockingbird," and "Judgment at Nuremberg." I think that in both instances, it was hard for the boy in me to understand the evil that men do, but, more importantly, comforting to know that there are men who would stand toe-to-toe with that evil with an immense amount of resolve.
In my lifetime, those same 2 movies were the 1,2 punch in cinema, along with “The 10 Commandments”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, The Quiet Man”, “Inherit the Wind”, “Soylent Green”, “The Andromeda Strain”, and so many other great classics. We, as older generations, will never see the likes again. 😢
@@redbarchetta8782 If you mean the GOP, you're deluded by the same party to which you adhere and who's lies you believe. Read some history, try "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and "Hitler's Willing Executioners" for starters.
Well said Mr S. When I was a boy,I watched to Kill a Mockingbird on tv with my Grandma. At the time it was the best film I had seen. My Grandma had trouble sleeping after the film. She was an old school girl . Thanks for sharing.
Yes, this judge is telling it straight. Nearly brought to tears at the horrific acts of inhumanity displayed by the people inhabiting Earth. I can't describe how I truly feel, but in a nutshell it is awful. I will never find peace until injustice is reversed and the evil is crushed. I still have not brought myself to understand such cruelty and malice towards one another. I guess I am not meant to grasp the random nature of the wicked.
I want to believe that you loathed what you did, but I can’t convince myself. I have faith that some voice says to you every morning how ashamed you should be.
I've watched this wonderful film every year for the last 50-years, and it still never fails to move me. Although I've learned that this was the not the actual closing speech, it managed to encompass the all of the most important elements of the case, not an easy thing to do. From the historical, to the moral, to the political aspect of this landmark trial, this final verdict-in my opinion the finest courtroom speech ever written-not only secured the greatness of this film for all time, but also served as a fitting tribute to the long and revered career of Spencer Tracey, who in his twilight years was the ONLY actor capable of uttering such great words.
I am appalled and sickened personally. No amount of repenting can atone for the human atrocities and the fall out we see today. It is often sad to call yourself a human being. I just can't fathom how these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning. Utterly shameful.
We don't do moral clarity in the United States because it hurts so many white people's feelings. State classification of human beings along "racial" lines? Yup, we did it here in the United States of America long before the Nazis came up.
"You must believe it when I say to you, I never knew it would come to this." "Herr Janning, you knew it would come to this the moment you sentenced to death a man you knew to be innocent."
Yes you are right, but today we are throwing it away because we do not like it. If we ignore it we never learn from what happened. I have no patience with revisionism history.
My dad made me watch this movie a decade ago. A moving, brilliantly acted courtroom drama. Spencer Tracey exuded gravitas. Monty Clift brought me to tears.
My father worked at Ft. Sam Houston’s medical film library after serving 30 years in the Army, during the mid 1950’s. I was a teenager at the time. One weekend he borrowed several films and showed them to my brother and me. The were films of the U.S. military liberating concentration camps. Those films brought home to me what WW2 was about. The memory of seeing all those bodies has remained with me today. Those films showed in the movie are real. Some of you younger people have been taught we are the Nazis today. That is pure propaganda and false. Many people have given their lives so we can be free. You need to ask what is the real motive of anyone to espouses such lies. We are being infested by some people in authority who no longer believe in this country and they have evil motives. Be warned now or suffer the same results as the people in North Korea, China and South America.
@@e.l.daniel1565 As a high school froshmen, 1974, my social studies teacher showed some of the liberation footage...I had to leave the room. It makes me sick to watch some of our "leaders" today returning to the very white supremacist and voter suppression policies that nearly half a million Americans sacrificed their lives to fight save us from. Today I watched a clip of an American politician referring to our citizens who are gay or non-binary as demons, imps, and abominations...are pink triangles next...in America?!
The trials actually found one guy not guilty. He'd been a particular friend of Hitler's but H. took care that he never knew of the atrocities '-- which makes me wonder. The man found innocent had helped run the war, but "only" that. These trials addressed the extraordinary atrocities, not "normal" war making.
Spencer Tracy was just a man, with weaknesses and vices just like any one of us. Yet, as an actor, he was unequaled...his gift enabled him to actually become the individual he was portraying. There have been so many great actors, over the years, but there is only one Spencer Tracy... THE master of his craft.
@Brian Johnson - I'm 68 now. For over 40 years now, I have believed that Spencer Tracy is the greatest actor to have ever graced the cinema. No one yet has ever come to change my mind. This, Inherit The Wind etc. There was also a mediocre film in 1956, The Mountain. That was actually the film that convinced me of Tracy's supreme talent. He turned the mediocre into something constantly engaging.
Rumour had it that he was cheating on his wife, with Katherine Hepburn. At the very least, it seemed that he was having an emotional affair with her. If any of that was true, then I have to say that cheating men suck. Church.
At 91, William Shatner is the last surviving main cast member. Spencer Tracy's eleven-minute closing speech was filmed in one take using multiple cameras shooting simultaneously. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” - Ernest Hemingway, 1946
I'm a Civil War reenactor and a combat veteran [Central and South America, mid 80s]. Hemmingway's quote is essentially what I teach when I go to schools. It pisses some people off, but the truth is **supposed** to piss people off. The truth strips away all those rationalizations and convenient lies that we tell ourselves and confronts you with the stark reality of whatever you're studying. What I teach is this: 'War' is what happens when industrialists, statesmen, publishers, and other people who think they're better than you completely fail at their jobs. What's more, almost none of these people will ever actually pay for their errors... some will actually prosper from it. The person who gets to pay for it is the kid on top of Hill 123 somewhere in the back ass of nowhere. They, their buddies, and one unit of fire will pay the price. "And men in Washington in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was!" -- Sam Elliot [as BGen John Buford] 'Gettysburg' 1993
Keep this in mind: At aged 61 and not in the best of health, Tracy had to memorize about six pages of dialogue. He got it on the first take. I have seen Robert De Niro using idiot cards that contained less than what Spencer did here. The man was a beast.
I’m sure you know the stories about his drinking binges. Which actually makes his acting all the more amazing. Apparently, he would go on these binges and would rent a hotel room. He’d drink hard liquor in the bathtubs, and just puke and shit all over himself. He was so tortured over his…I dunno, I guess infidelity to his wife, and his inability to completely stop drinking, that he’d basically punish himself with his addiction. Odd, but it makes a weird tragic logic. Anyways, while it probably killed him early in the end, he is one of the greatest actors we have ever had. I hope he found some sort of peace in the ether where we go after we expire.
"The value of a single human being." I think of Liam Neeson's portrayal of Oskar Schlinder, when he realizes he could have added one more person to the list...and he didn't.
Oskar Schindler...an imperfect man who pursued money and pleasurable vices...yet rose to a height few have ever so much as aspired to...the wrong man, at absolutely the right place and the right time.
Spencer Tracy is in my estimation the finest actor in movie history. His legendary partner Katherine Hepburn also claimed that Tracy was the tops. This speech is a four-year course and acting consolidated into one speech. Bravo Tracy
Tracy was a chronic alcoholic who went on uncontrollable binges that lasted for weeks at a time. His so-called "romance " with Hepburn was completely contrived by their PR agents to glorify their individual careers and make them appear "normal" to the public . In reality, Hepburn was a dyed in the wool lesbian who had an insatiable appetite for young women aspiring to "make it " in Hollywood .
This is one of the many scenes that shows why Spencer Tracy is one of the greatest actors in cinema history. Need more proof ? Check out the courtroom scene in Inherit The Wind.That scene also shows the great talent of Frederick March.
You could add the speech he gives at the end of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner to the list. Probably my favorite. And another that should be shown in every classroom.
absolutely riveting!! don't think any other actor could have portrayed it better than spencer tracy! each and every human being should see this video clip! at least that's what I think.................
This is a must have movie for any serious collector of movies. This dark tale is about people, good and bad, those who get caught up in what some some think is the greater good,... or bad and evil. It is tales of individuals, it is sad, it is about coming to grips with a terrible time and terrible people and trying to correct the wrongs that happened. All of the performances in this film ranged from good to excellent. This film is an example of why History should be a primary subject in all schools instead of a nearly forgotten subject that is minimized today.
Nothing against Maximillian Schell, but I simply cannot understand how the academy chose him over the great Spencer Tracy for Best Actor of 1961...particularly in light of Mr. Tracy's most eloquent performance in this film....
Perhaps it's because Max was young and new, and Spencer had already enjoyed a stellar career. Many Oscars are given to actors who on the way UP, not DOWN. It all about commerce.
Listen to his words. As relevant today as it was then. As others have commented, if you don't think history can repeat itself - then you're not paying attention to what is happening today. What does our conscious say? What do we stand for as nation? If we don't stand up and speak out against hate - about injustice then we ill likely see history repeat itself - not in another country - but in ours.
Great part of an Excellent Movie!.... almost forgot about this! Thanks James! Excellent Quote from Judge Dan Heywood, "The principal of Criminal Law, In every civilized society, has this in common, Any person who sways another to commit murder, any person who furnishes a lethal weapon for the purpose of the crime, any person who is an accessory to the crime, is guilty...." Wow, Spencer Tracey acts this so well.. Great movie. If you haven't seen it...Gotta watch it!... Along with Jimmy Stewart's, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
+Mick Krug So right you are! And also about "Mr. Smith". As I partially stated in a new comment, we are now in the position the Tracy's character was discussing, and I think we are failing. We are allowing the threat of terrorism to cause us to abandon our values. People in the USA are fond of saying that "freedom isn't free", but they won't accept the bill. They are happy to send others to combat, but are willing to sacrifice their own freedoms, and keep desperate refugees out of this country in return for a marginally improved chance at survival.
Why aren't these kind of movies made any more? What happened to brilliant speeches, unforgettable dialogs, impeccable performance? An exceptional movie which inspired people to think and rethink answers to questions like: who is the greater patriot--the one who rebels and leaves in trying times or the one who stays behind to make sure things do not get worse.
Great films (and TV series) are being made. They're just not being made by the mainstream industry for theatres. Superhero movies, romcoms and children's movies make money and that's the focus. The new version of All Quiet on the Western Front shows that good films are being made and there's an audience, but it's mostly for the streaming services.
Between this speech, Tracy’s penultimate address to the court a year earlier in Inherit the Wind, and his final performance and speech in 1967 in Guess Whose Coming to Dinner are amongst the most powerful and definitively memorable acting performances of all time. All of them were rooted in demanding and fighting for justice, be it about race, equality, morality, opposing bigotry in all of its forms. That Tracy, Hepburn, and countless others in Hollywood fought against the unjust blacklist brought about by McCarthy, Nixon, Reagan, Menjou, and other craven and politically motivated individuals is a matter of public record. The fact that we are still confronted today with many of the same injustices and bigotries six decades later proves a powerful line delivered by Tracy from Inherit the Wind: “…bigotry and ignorance are forever busy, and need feeding.”
@@MarkHarrison733 too bad that your lack of historical knowledge shines through your troll reply. Hundreds of innocent people were targeted unjustly by the blacklist as a means of score-settling with rivals (Elia Kazan was particularly vicious in testifying before HUAC against actors with whom he’d had run-ins on set). It was a complete fraud and resulted in needlessly destroyed careers and lives.
@@JosephFerreiraJr None were innocent. John Wayne was correct to support blacklisting so strongly. Patton was right - we "fought the wrong enemy" in World War II.
I'm shocked that most of the comments are about what a great actor Spencer Tracy was, without a word about the content of his speech. Thank you commenters that talk about the content and morality of the court and the free world.
This is one of the greatest film speeches of all time, performed by one of the greatest film actors of all time. It never fails to move me, and I've watched it dozens of times. But I wonder... is this the actual speech given by the real judge??
I heard about it on IMDB for the 11 minute speech but not as usually as you'd see in one take scenes where it doesn't cut. I assume that there are a bunch of cameras for this scene and edited it smoothly for continuity because the audio doesn't slightly shift. For example: Gregory Peck's speech in To Kill A Mockingbird.
"and the value of a single human being". That's the problem - they didn't feel it was wrong because they had been taught they weren't dealing with human beings.
A very powerful movie and most appropriate for us Americans today, as we face a former president, his enablers and his followers who know nothing of Fascism and know little of history and yet without realizing it are opening the gates for a Fascist dictatorship through their rabid emotions of rage and the emptiness of their ignorant, depraved minds masquerading as patriotism.
Paul, people choose to suffer under their authorities and governments. I'm talking about the whole population. America has produced the Declaration of Independence and it's constitution. Fine and worthy documents, but they have to be lived up to and enforced. That's the role of the public ultimately and most of the time the public don't want to know.
I notice that this comment was made 5 years ago. Isn't it interesting how it addresses the atmosphere of the United States today, 2019? We are not doing such a good job learning from historic example.
@@shirleywhitt8740 America became an Orwellian, Technocratic, Neo-fascist, Surveillance state long before DJT, if _HE'S_ who you're refering to. I'm no Trump-ite, btw. But let's stay within the realm of reality, folks. Please. Now that people are crying out for their Sovereignty to be returned, people are claiming America is becoming fascist. What a sick joke *that* is..... My point being; Trump ain't your enemy. Blame the billionaires (who are the REAL people in charge). Blame the Bush's, the Clintons and Obama for their complicity in this whole fiasco.
Obviously there is an attitude of some people (who post comments on this video) that human rights violations and constitutional violations never cross party lines. If that is your mindset, then you do not see the point of this video.
It is such a fascinating movie. Did you know, that of all of the people involved in the American concentration camp system, including those who shot Japanese who tried to escape, not one of them was ever brought to justice? They retired add received their veterans benefits and Military pensions. All civilian authorities who ensured that the camps were properly laid out and built for never prosecuted. No one involved in the American concentration camps was ever tried, convicted, or executed
Thank you for posting this. Today, in the wake of the Paris attacks, which saddened me deeply, I posted the link to this an more than one thread where people were denigrating the German Chancellor for still being willing to take in refugees, or supporting Poland for balking at doing that. Those people don't know the lesson of this speech. What is important is what you stand for when standing for something is the most difficult. I have seen this movie many times, and that is the thrust of the entire thing. If our values are not worth risking our safety for, then they are not values at all.
+ Jan Bittner No, it does not - not unless your idea of self preservation is merely the biological functioning of your body. There was a theater shooting a few years back - four men died covering their girlfriends in that shooting - one had only been dating his girl for a couple of weeks. To preserve his body, he would have had to abandon his "self". Any one of them could have pulled the girls down on top of themselves and let them take the bullet - self preservation. But they chose instead to risk their lives for what they thought was right. If you sacrifice your values for self preservation whatever remains alive is not you - unless you were scum to begin with.
@@pdoylemi Your example is a bit absurd. The people making the sacrifice INDIVIDUALLY CHOSE to do so. Politicians forcing their citizens, using the power of the state, to sacrifice their personal safety and well being for others is collectivist authoritarianism. The state can ask me to sacrifice myself for my country's collective security when actual war threatens, and I can DECIDE to do it for those I care for, but to try and impose some rule that I must do so to satisfy YOUR sense of morality is something very few people are going to accept. This does not make people fascists. Laws protecting CITIZENS of a country are not invidiously prejudicial; they just acknowledge reality that societies are different and jurisdictions are limited by available resources and political realities.
Spencer Tracy... for me, he was the greatest actor America produced. Guess who's coming to dinner his last film he made his own and what a great way to bow out at 67
This movie so applies to us today in the 21st Century that it's utterly amazing. Things that are happening now today, we should be all over them! Why are we not? We were all over the Germans back then. Where are we at now?
WAKE UP!! 'WE' now - ARE Nazis! Since winning WW2 for their so callled 'FREE Christian Democracy' U$/UK/OZ have MA$$ MURDERED over 20 MILLION VICTIMS - ONGOING in 37 countries!!! www.google.com/search?q=us+has+killed+20+million+since+ww2&rlz=1C1GCEA_enBE880BE880&oq=us+has+kil&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60.10616j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
@@johnmcdonald9304 There are too many sects in Islam for it to be one thing. Oh! I forgot my manners. Fuck you too. Isn't that what crass, ill educated Americans use to greet each other?
The United States would have never won the Cold War, even with all its over-powering military and industrial might, had it not being for people like Judge Dan Heywood who refuse to sacrifice Justice for political expedience. The Germans might resent his decision for the moment, but when they finally came out of their hurt pride, they will come to genuine respect and admiration of the USA.
All of us will be judged and be found guilty of failing to love one another. Punishment awaits us, some punished more harshly than others. But no one will be found completely innocent. May the Good Lord have mercy on us all.
You’re a moron, he couldn’t have stood trial because if he did the US would have to stand trial!!! Right now in the US our prisons are full to the brink, overflowing, unmarked graves plot the ground all around them. Closed down prisons from back then even, we are still finding mass graves you fool. You should really think before you try to get on your soap box.
You think of Stalin I think of how the U.S. turned a ship full of Jews away and sent them back to Germany to die. I think about how we then saved a ton of Nazis and brought them into our government. I think of how we are still finding decommissioned prisons in the US full of mass graves.
Yah Pat, true view. Yet I think there is great consolation: life is fleeting, then it’s over, then there’s accountability. No evil beings escape it. Thank goodness there is a God. God bless you.
You say that as though 'Merica' was an individual. The same judges who presided here may well have abhorred racist practices in the US. The best of any nation is always going to be a minority. The virtue of the American system is that it at least allows for the best people and ideas to rise to a position of authority. The corruption of the Nazi system was that it allowed only for the worst to thrive.
I read somewhere that Tracy did this is one take, like a great stage actor. It does look like a one-take shot. Why can't they make films like this anymore?
@@leestamm3187 ...and, NO Steroid-Head actors, no CGA. The Hero and Monster movies...they bring in the Dough. It shall Always be thus. Although the Early, "Classic" XXX films had a HUGE profit/cost ratio, as did a few Indie flicks, like "Clerks."
Almost 66 years old, and I'd add " The Oxbow Incident !"A particularly chilling look at hatred,fear, and mob justice ; ⚖️, they find out too late they hanged an innocent man! I saw this movie and others like it ; sadly, we haven't stopped human genocide yet ! Cambodia 🇰🇭-Pol Pot, Rwanda. And how many more past that 🤔 ?
"A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for....it's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! Before the people of the world - let it now be noted that here in our decision this is what WE stand for: Justice, Truth....and the Value of a Single Human Being!"
As I write this, I am 64 years old. There are two movies I watched as a boy of perhaps 10 or 11, that struck emotional chords inside of me, and which have remained with me all of my life. "To Kill A Mockingbird," and "Judgment at Nuremberg." I think that in both instances, it was hard for the boy in me to understand the evil that men do, but, more importantly, comforting to know that there are men who would stand toe-to-toe with that evil with an immense amount of resolve.
Sadly you know the GQP would call Spencer Tracy woke these days over this film.
In my lifetime, those same 2 movies were the 1,2 punch in cinema, along with “The 10 Commandments”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, The Quiet Man”, “Inherit the Wind”, “Soylent Green”, “The Andromeda Strain”, and so many other great classics. We, as older generations, will never see the likes again. 😢
@@redbarchetta8782 If you mean the GOP, you're deluded by the same party to which you adhere and who's lies you believe. Read some history, try "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and "Hitler's Willing Executioners" for starters.
Well said Mr S. When I was a boy,I watched to Kill a Mockingbird on tv with my Grandma. At the time it was the best film I had seen. My Grandma had trouble sleeping after the film. She was an old school girl . Thanks for sharing.
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I’ve seen this countless times and it never fails to make me tear up.
Me too.
Yes, this judge is telling it straight. Nearly brought to tears at the horrific acts of inhumanity displayed by the people inhabiting Earth. I can't describe how I truly feel, but in a nutshell it is awful. I will never find peace until injustice is reversed and the evil is crushed. I still have not brought myself to understand such cruelty and malice towards one another. I guess I am not meant to grasp the random nature of the wicked.
I want to believe that you loathed what you did, but I can’t convince myself. I have faith that some voice says to you every morning how ashamed you should be.
I've watched this wonderful film every year for the last 50-years, and it still never fails to move me. Although I've learned that this was the not the actual closing speech, it managed to encompass the all of the most important elements of the case, not an easy thing to do. From the historical, to the moral, to the political aspect of this landmark trial, this final verdict-in my opinion the finest courtroom speech ever written-not only secured the greatness of this film for all time, but also served as a fitting tribute to the long and revered career of Spencer Tracey, who in his twilight years was the ONLY actor capable of uttering such great words.
I am appalled and sickened personally. No amount of repenting can atone for the human atrocities and the fall out we see today. It is often sad to call yourself a human being. I just can't fathom how these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning. Utterly shameful.
The moral clarity on display here is sorely missed in our time
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No it's not. You like many people are simply self-righteous.
We don't do moral clarity in the United States because it hurts so many white people's feelings.
State classification of human beings along "racial" lines?
Yup, we did it here in the United States of America long before the Nazis came up.
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"You must believe it when I say to you, I never knew it would come to this."
"Herr Janning, you knew it would come to this the moment you sentenced to death a man you knew to be innocent."
Best lines in the film. How timely this is to our situation today.
I saw this move once, when I was 12 years old. I'm now 75. I have never forgotten that line and have thought of it many times.
Greetings from Germany! The best line of the whole movie. And very true.
Definitely sums it all up! Great line and one of the best.
If we forget the past we are doomed to repeat it.
Im suposed to forget a problem in nh even though i need to go through them to ever drive again
Yes you are right, but today we are throwing it away because we do not like it. If we ignore it we never learn from what happened. I have no patience with revisionism history.
We're repeating it right this minute
@@WMJCPAAll history is revisionist. Which revisions do you object to?
My dad made me watch this movie a decade ago. A moving, brilliantly acted courtroom drama. Spencer Tracey exuded gravitas. Monty Clift brought me to tears.
My father worked at Ft. Sam Houston’s medical film library after serving 30 years in the Army, during the mid 1950’s. I was a teenager at the time. One weekend he borrowed several films and showed them to my brother and me. The were films of the U.S. military liberating concentration camps. Those films brought home to me what WW2 was about. The memory of seeing all those bodies has remained with me today. Those films showed in the movie are real.
Some of you younger people have been taught we are the Nazis today. That is pure propaganda and false. Many people have given their lives so we can be free. You need to ask what is the real motive of anyone to espouses such lies. We are being infested by some people in authority who no longer believe in this country and they have evil motives. Be warned now or suffer the same results as the people in North Korea, China and South America.
@@e.l.daniel1565 The Allies used concentration camps.
@@e.l.daniel1565 well said !
@@e.l.daniel1565 who are "we"?
@@e.l.daniel1565 As a high school froshmen, 1974, my social studies teacher showed some of the liberation footage...I had to leave the room. It makes me sick to watch some of our "leaders" today returning to the very white supremacist and voter suppression policies that nearly half a million Americans sacrificed their lives to fight save us from. Today I watched a clip of an American politician referring to our citizens who are gay or non-binary as demons, imps, and abominations...are pink triangles next...in America?!
Amazing scene from an absolutely devastating film. JAN needs to be seen in every history class.
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In my class, we saw the TV film from 2000.
No doubt it would be banned by republicans.
Just as All Quiet on the Western Front needs to be read and understood by every single student BEFORE they go to college.
The trials actually found one guy not guilty. He'd been a particular friend of Hitler's but H. took care that he never knew of the atrocities '-- which makes me wonder. The man found innocent had helped run the war, but "only" that.
These trials addressed the extraordinary atrocities, not "normal" war making.
Spencer Tracy was just a man, with weaknesses and vices just like any
one of us. Yet, as an actor, he was unequaled...his gift enabled him to
actually become the individual he was portraying. There have been so
many great actors, over the years, but there is only one Spencer Tracy...
THE master of his craft.
We are all just human. All returning to the glimmering cosmic dust when we're done. The sum of what we love best...so love well.
I love this scene the best. There will never be another actor like Spencer Tracy.
No, there never will be.
@Brian Johnson - I'm 68 now. For over 40 years now, I have believed that Spencer Tracy is the greatest actor to have ever graced the cinema. No one yet has ever come to change my mind. This, Inherit The Wind etc. There was also a mediocre film in 1956, The Mountain. That was actually the film that convinced me of Tracy's supreme talent. He turned the mediocre into something constantly engaging.
Theo Lamp The Mountain was awesome. Not action packed but it’s still compelling to watch.
Rumour had it that he was cheating on his wife, with Katherine Hepburn. At the very least, it seemed that he was having an emotional affair with her. If any of that was true, then I have to say that cheating men suck. Church.
@@theolamp5312 "Bad Day at Black Rock"
"Justice, Truth, and the value of a single human being."
What a well made, powerful movie this was. From the camera movement,the acting and all around story plot. A classic movie ahead of it's time
Actually, of its time.
Hurt Lancaster was awe inspiring.
For this my father and way too many other men fought , for this their courage preserved . Thank You .
A one-sided victors' justice.
At 91, William Shatner is the last surviving main cast member. Spencer Tracy's eleven-minute closing speech was filmed in one take using multiple cameras shooting simultaneously.
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
- Ernest Hemingway, 1946
Shhh...you'll Jinx him. Props to him for flying in Space, albeit not at "Warp Ten." Hopefully, he doesn't have any "Mad Cow" issues.
I'm a Civil War reenactor and a combat veteran [Central and South America, mid 80s].
Hemmingway's quote is essentially what I teach when I go to schools.
It pisses some people off, but the truth is **supposed** to piss people off. The truth strips away all those rationalizations and convenient lies that we tell ourselves and confronts you with the stark reality of whatever you're studying.
What I teach is this: 'War' is what happens when industrialists, statesmen, publishers, and other people who think they're better than you completely fail at their jobs. What's more, almost none of these people will ever actually pay for their errors... some will actually prosper from it. The person who gets to pay for it is the kid on top of Hill 123 somewhere in the back ass of nowhere. They, their buddies, and one unit of fire will pay the price.
"And men in Washington in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was!"
-- Sam Elliot [as BGen John Buford] 'Gettysburg' 1993
Woo woo from Hemingway.
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In case no one noticed, Captain James Tiberius Kirk Time Warped Back to 1945 and opened up the final verdict hearing. :)
I love how you used Capt. Kirk's full name. I won a couple bar (tavren) bets on what was his middle name. I wasn't born a nerd for nothing😁😎
Yes, but Colonel Klink knew nuthhhing!
His lines were actually deliveredsmoothly
Wasn’t this 1947?
he was Jewish in real life, btw, as is Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise
Keep this in mind: At aged 61 and not in the best of health, Tracy had to memorize about six pages of dialogue. He got it on the first take. I have seen Robert De Niro using idiot cards that contained less than what Spencer did here. The man was a beast.
De Niro is an idiot.
Dont be stupid enough to criticize Robert De Niro. Ridiculous hack.
I’m sure you know the stories about his drinking binges. Which actually makes his acting all the more amazing. Apparently, he would go on these binges and would rent a hotel room. He’d drink hard liquor in the bathtubs, and just puke and shit all over himself. He was so tortured over his…I dunno, I guess infidelity to his wife, and his inability to completely stop drinking, that he’d basically punish himself with his addiction. Odd, but it makes a weird tragic logic. Anyways, while it probably killed him early in the end, he is one of the greatest actors we have ever had. I hope he found some sort of peace in the ether where we go after we expire.
They should call them 'De Niro' cards.
I think Spencer Tracy is the best movie actor in history. No contest.
"The value of a single human being." I think of Liam Neeson's portrayal of Oskar Schlinder, when he realizes he could have added one more person to the list...and he didn't.
Great friggin' movie! Watch it at least once a month. :)
Oskar Schindler...an imperfect man who pursued money and pleasurable vices...yet rose to a height few have ever so much as aspired to...the wrong man, at absolutely the right place and the right time.
Spencer Tracy is in my estimation the finest actor in movie history. His legendary partner Katherine Hepburn also claimed that Tracy was the tops. This speech is a four-year course and acting consolidated into one speech. Bravo Tracy
Of course she wasn't biased at all.
Tracy was a chronic alcoholic who went on uncontrollable binges that lasted for weeks at a time. His so-called "romance " with Hepburn was completely contrived by their PR agents to glorify their individual careers and make them appear "normal" to the public . In reality, Hepburn was a dyed in the wool lesbian who had an insatiable appetite for young women aspiring to "make it " in Hollywood .
I doubt any single actor could be named the GOAT. Many could justify Fredric March and Spencer Tracy at rhe same level.
Wife, not partner
I first saw this movie as a 12 year old kid. So powerful! I was totally gripped by it. Thank you so much for posting!
''Standing for something, when standing is the most difficult''.
Spencer tracy is my favorite actor of all time even though he was before my time his acting is so beautifully done
This is one of the many scenes that shows why Spencer Tracy is one of the greatest actors in cinema history. Need more proof ? Check out the courtroom scene in Inherit The Wind.That scene also shows the great talent of Frederick March.
That to was another great movie and performance from Tracy
Spencer Tracy is one of my favourite (favourite?) actors
You could add the speech he gives at the end of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner to the list. Probably my favorite. And another that should be shown in every classroom.
And Bad Day at Black Rock.
@@garfieldsmith332 I did not see that movie till about 2 years ago. Very good.
This and Montgomery Clift's scene are the best moments in the film.
absolutely riveting!! don't think any other actor could have portrayed it better than spencer tracy! each and every human being should see this video clip! at least that's what I think.................
This is a must have movie for any serious collector of movies. This dark tale is about people, good and bad, those who get caught up in what some some think is the greater good,... or bad and evil. It is tales of individuals, it is sad, it is about coming to grips with a terrible time and terrible people and trying to correct the wrongs that happened. All of the performances in this film ranged from good to excellent. This film is an example of why History should be a primary subject in all schools instead of a nearly forgotten subject that is minimized today.
Nothing against Maximillian Schell, but I simply cannot understand how the academy chose him over the great Spencer Tracy for Best Actor of 1961...particularly in light of Mr. Tracy's most eloquent performance in this film....
Schell yelled more....
Perhaps it's because Max was young and new, and Spencer had already enjoyed a stellar career. Many Oscars are given to actors who on the way UP, not DOWN. It all about commerce.
Inherit the wind is also very powerful!
I love the was Mr. Shell delivered his opening argument.
Will Drucker. Cold War politics.
Spencer Tracy...was and still is the absolute best ever!!
Here's ST in one of his best roles as the fisherman Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea":
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As I write this, I am 64 years old. And the cinematic ethical gravitas still hammers me.
Listen to his words. As relevant today as it was then. As others have commented, if you don't think history can repeat itself - then you're not paying attention to what is happening today. What does our conscious say? What do we stand for as nation? If we don't stand up and speak out against hate - about injustice then we ill likely see history repeat itself - not in another country - but in ours.
"….and the value of a single human being."
Great part of an Excellent Movie!.... almost forgot about this! Thanks James!
Excellent Quote from Judge Dan Heywood, "The principal of Criminal Law, In every civilized society, has this in common, Any person who sways another to commit murder, any person who furnishes a lethal weapon for the purpose of the crime, any person who is an accessory to the crime, is guilty...." Wow, Spencer Tracey acts this so well.. Great movie. If you haven't seen it...Gotta watch it!... Along with Jimmy Stewart's, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
+Mick Krug what movie is this? i was honestly moved by his performance!!
+patrick starshooter aaa...judgement judgement at nuremburg??
Mick Krug apologies, i thought that was just the title of this video, thanks!
+Mick Krug
So right you are! And also about "Mr. Smith". As I partially stated in a new comment, we are now in the position the Tracy's character was discussing, and I think we are failing.
We are allowing the threat of terrorism to cause us to abandon our values. People in the USA are fond of saying that "freedom isn't free", but they won't accept the bill. They are happy to send others to combat, but are willing to sacrifice their own freedoms, and keep desperate refugees out of this country in return for a marginally improved chance at survival.
Yes, Mr Smith goes to Washington is superb. Especially the final scenes with Jimmy Stewart and also speeches by Claude Rains.
I chose to watch this clip tonight while the RNC convention speeches were being broadcast. It is timeless
It is a crime at what the Democrats want to do. They need a history lesson.
Why aren't these kind of movies made any more? What happened to brilliant speeches, unforgettable dialogs, impeccable performance? An exceptional movie which inspired people to think and rethink answers to questions like: who is the greater patriot--the one who rebels and leaves in trying times or the one who stays behind to make sure things do not get worse.
Agree 100 percent. The problem is today, the character would start talking about ESG and diversity and not justice and universal moral principles.
Beyonce would be great in the Marlene Dietrich role, Lol
Not enough explosions and car chases.
Hollywood is too busy making movies about comic book superheroes & showing off CGI special effects to make films for us grown ups.
Great films (and TV series) are being made. They're just not being made by the mainstream industry for theatres. Superhero movies, romcoms and children's movies make money and that's the focus. The new version of All Quiet on the Western Front shows that good films are being made and there's an audience, but it's mostly for the streaming services.
Opening remarks by Captain Kirk
Plot twist: Capt Kirk went back in time to participate in historical events by using the Guardian of Forever.
Spencer Tracy, quality, enough said
In a later generation, Daniel Day Lewis has been considered one of the finest actors.
Between this speech, Tracy’s penultimate address to the court a year earlier in Inherit the Wind, and his final performance and speech in 1967 in Guess Whose Coming to Dinner are amongst the most powerful and definitively memorable acting performances of all time. All of them were rooted in demanding and fighting for justice, be it about race, equality, morality, opposing bigotry in all of its forms. That Tracy, Hepburn, and countless others in Hollywood fought against the unjust blacklist brought about by McCarthy, Nixon, Reagan, Menjou, and other craven and politically motivated individuals is a matter of public record. The fact that we are still confronted today with many of the same injustices and bigotries six decades later proves a powerful line delivered by Tracy from Inherit the Wind: “…bigotry and ignorance are forever busy, and need feeding.”
The blacklist was a good thing, but it would have been far better if the United States had destroyed the Soviet Union and Communism forever in 1941.
@@MarkHarrison733 too bad that your lack of historical knowledge shines through your troll reply. Hundreds of innocent people were targeted unjustly by the blacklist as a means of score-settling with rivals (Elia Kazan was particularly vicious in testifying before HUAC against actors with whom he’d had run-ins on set). It was a complete fraud and resulted in needlessly destroyed careers and lives.
@@JosephFerreiraJr None were innocent. John Wayne was correct to support blacklisting so strongly.
Patton was right - we "fought the wrong enemy" in World War II.
One of those scenes that truly shows the power of Cinema
Too bad it's all total and compete bullshit and lies.
@@operaticcat1892 In what way?
@@operaticcat1892 how ????
Now we need another Nuremberg for big pharma
Not alone. Every govt in the world with few exceptions are just as guilty. Drs, nurses, hospitals, so many took part.
The greatest war crime of all. When a righteous person sees injustice but turns away and says, “I see nothing”.
Spencer Tracey. The greatest actor to appear on any screen. How does he do it? Sublime.
Amen. Thank you Justice Jackson.
Those who still feel and follow in the footsteps of these monsters should and must be brought to trial and justice themselves.
I'm shocked that most of the comments are about what a great actor Spencer Tracy was, without a word about the content of his speech. Thank you commenters that talk about the content and morality of the court and the free world.
"Survival as WHAT?!"
Goosebumps every time
Great movie , adored Spencer's Tracy. Great actor.
This is one of the greatest film speeches of all time, performed by one of the greatest film actors of all time. It never fails to move me, and I've watched it dozens of times. But I wonder... is this the actual speech given by the real judge??
I don’t know but, if so, it would rank as one of the greatest speeches ever written.
No this is fiction but it IS true to the spirit of Nuremburg.
Very good film to watch a fantastic cast and a great script as well
If we forget the past,we are doomed to repeat it's mistakes.
He did this in just one take
That figures.
I heard about it on IMDB for the 11 minute speech but not as usually as you'd see in one take scenes where it doesn't cut. I assume that there are a bunch of cameras for this scene and edited it smoothly for continuity because the audio doesn't slightly shift.
For example: Gregory Peck's speech in To Kill A Mockingbird.
"and the value of a single human being". That's the problem - they didn't feel it was wrong because they had been taught they weren't dealing with human beings.
Still as relevant and important today, perhaps even more so, as it was at the time! One of the most powerful movies I've seen...
A very powerful movie and most appropriate for us Americans today, as we face a former president, his enablers and his followers who know nothing of Fascism and know little of history and yet without realizing it are opening the gates for a Fascist dictatorship through their rabid emotions of rage and the emptiness of their ignorant, depraved minds masquerading as patriotism.
@@grantsmythe8625 Keep your "woke" nonsense to yourself.
Very moving. When will the 2 million Vietnamese civilians get their day in court?
hollywood at its very best even after all these years....what poweful words delivered by one of the best screen actors ever....sobering and moving.
The TRUTH
The real value of a single human being
This was one of the best movies of all time.
Paul, people choose to suffer under their authorities and governments. I'm talking about the whole population. America has produced the Declaration of Independence and it's constitution. Fine and worthy documents, but they have to be lived up to and enforced. That's the role of the public ultimately and most of the time the public don't want to know.
I notice that this comment was made 5 years ago. Isn't it interesting how it addresses the atmosphere of the United States today, 2019? We are not doing such a good job learning from historic example.
@@shirleywhitt8740 America became an Orwellian, Technocratic, Neo-fascist, Surveillance state long before DJT, if _HE'S_ who you're refering to. I'm no Trump-ite, btw. But let's stay within the realm of reality, folks. Please. Now that people are crying out for their Sovereignty to be returned, people are claiming America is becoming fascist. What a sick joke *that* is.....
My point being; Trump ain't your enemy. Blame the billionaires (who are the REAL people in charge). Blame the Bush's, the Clintons and Obama for their complicity in this whole fiasco.
This scene was and is so profound!
Obviously there is an attitude of some people (who post comments on this video) that human rights violations and constitutional violations never cross party lines. If that is your mindset, then you do not see the point of this video.
I associate myself with this monologue completely !!!!❤
It is such a fascinating movie. Did you know, that of all of the people involved in the American concentration camp system, including those who shot Japanese who tried to escape, not one of them was ever brought to justice? They retired add received their veterans benefits and Military pensions. All civilian authorities who ensured that the camps were properly laid out and built for never prosecuted. No one involved in the American concentration camps was ever tried, convicted, or executed
This film is an absolute B L O C K B U S T E R in history of cinema!!!
Incredibly mature film
Let this eloquent speech be the light that disinfects us from the pestlience that is MAGA
These were very professional actors not to start tearing up at the end of this scene.
Thank you for posting this. Today, in the wake of the Paris attacks, which saddened me deeply, I posted the link to this an more than one thread where people were denigrating the German Chancellor for still being willing to take in refugees, or supporting Poland for balking at doing that.
Those people don't know the lesson of this speech. What is important is what you stand for when standing for something is the most difficult. I have seen this movie many times, and that is the thrust of the entire thing. If our values are not worth risking our safety for, then they are not values at all.
Pat Doyle This statement stops making sense once you realise self preservation can be a value too.
+ Jan Bittner
No, it does not - not unless your idea of self preservation is merely the biological functioning of your body. There was a theater shooting a few years back - four men died covering their girlfriends in that shooting - one had only been dating his girl for a couple of weeks. To preserve his body, he would have had to abandon his "self". Any one of them could have pulled the girls down on top of themselves and let them take the bullet - self preservation. But they chose instead to risk their lives for what they thought was right. If you sacrifice your values for self preservation whatever remains alive is not you - unless you were scum to begin with.
@@pdoylemi Your example is a bit absurd.
The people making the sacrifice INDIVIDUALLY CHOSE to do so.
Politicians forcing their citizens, using the power of the state, to sacrifice their personal safety and well being for others is collectivist authoritarianism.
The state can ask me to sacrifice myself for my country's collective security when actual war threatens, and I can DECIDE to do it for those I care for, but to try and impose some rule that I must do so to satisfy YOUR sense of morality is something very few people are going to accept.
This does not make people fascists. Laws protecting CITIZENS of a country are not invidiously prejudicial; they just acknowledge reality that societies are different and jurisdictions are limited by available resources and political realities.
Spencer is the same character in every film, from Boys Town to Guess who's coming to Dinner
Spencer Tracy... for me, he was the greatest actor America produced. Guess who's coming to dinner his last film he made his own and what a great way to bow out at 67
It was garbage.
Tracy and Gable, both top actors of the 30's and 40's both lived a hard, fast life and aged and died too young.
True masters of thier crafts.
Spencer Tracy was 67, which was the average life expectancy at the time of his death.
What a powerful statement.
Every time I see this I get tears in my eyes ... Tracy, such a great actor.
A truly golden era
This movie so applies to us today in the 21st Century that it's utterly amazing. Things that are happening now today, we should be all over them! Why are we not? We were all over the Germans back then. Where are we at now?
WAKE UP!!
'WE' now - ARE Nazis!
Since winning WW2 for their so callled 'FREE Christian Democracy' U$/UK/OZ have MA$$ MURDERED over 20 MILLION VICTIMS - ONGOING in 37 countries!!!
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@@tinapatton7346 Fuck you, you moral idiot. Islam is the new Nazism.
@@johnmcdonald9304 . Dream on man
@@johnmcdonald9304 There are too many sects in Islam for it to be one thing. Oh! I forgot my manners. Fuck you too. Isn't that what crass, ill educated Americans use to greet each other?
@@johnmcdonald9304 There is no "new" Nazism. Just new Nazis. Let's not accuse a billion fucking people of being worse than Nazis.
The United States would have never won the Cold War, even with all its over-powering military and industrial might, had it not being for people like Judge Dan Heywood who refuse to sacrifice Justice for political expedience. The Germans might resent his decision for the moment, but when they finally came out of their hurt pride, they will come to genuine respect and admiration of the USA.
All of us will be judged and be found guilty of failing to love one another. Punishment awaits us, some punished more harshly than others. But no one will be found completely innocent. May the Good Lord have mercy on us all.
That was an incredible and moving performance. May we never forget what evil mankind is capable of
Today is March 19, 2023. This speech is so appropriate right now.
Too bad Stalin and his gang couldn't have stood trial.....
You’re a moron, he couldn’t have stood trial because if he did the US would have to stand trial!!! Right now in the US our prisons are full to the brink, overflowing, unmarked graves plot the ground all around them. Closed down prisons from back then even, we are still finding mass graves you fool. You should really think before you try to get on your soap box.
And we’ll see if Netanyahu is held trial, if not, the memory of this trial is nil.
You think of Stalin I think of how the U.S. turned a ship full of Jews away and sent them back to Germany to die. I think about how we then saved a ton of Nazis and brought them into our government. I think of how we are still finding decommissioned prisons in the US full of mass graves.
@@MonsieurBjornReddyNot Hamas or Hezbollah? Seriously? You're defective in the head.
Yah Pat, true view. Yet I think there is great consolation: life is fleeting, then it’s over, then there’s accountability. No evil beings escape it. Thank goodness there is a God. God bless you.
At Nuremberg
Merica: Not racist..
What about black people?
Merica: Oh, we don't consider them people.
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+Oakwood Pulaski Not all whites are racist. Don't generalize. Are you some kind of racist?
You say that as though 'Merica' was an individual. The same judges who presided here may well have abhorred racist practices in the US. The best of any nation is always going to be a minority. The virtue of the American system is that it at least allows for the best people and ideas to rise to a position of authority. The corruption of the Nazi system was that it allowed only for the worst to thrive.
Nobody ever says "racist" and thinks about the Trail of Tears. (Too long ago...)
At Nuremberg
Merica: Not racist...
What about Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman?
Merica: Oh, we don't consider them people.
Merica not racist.......
We will, one day soon, have our own Nuremberg Tribunal. 💔
I dont think so.we are well past any tribunal
It all ready started in Feb 2022!!
Star studded film and a great movie.
This really hits the nail on the head about what is happening in our country now!
You've got to be kidding. The USA, 2020 equals 1933 - 1945 Germany, REALLY??? That's just kookoo.
@@edithsmom6140 I'm kookoo for Coco Puffs.. (sorry)
@@CaptApril123 Recall how the milk turned brown!?
@@edithsmom6140 That's not what she said.
@@Big_Bag_of_Pus Sorry, but I just can't deal with your name. 🤢🤮
I read somewhere that Tracy did this is one take, like a great stage actor. It does look like a one-take shot. Why can't they make films like this anymore?
No quick cuts, car chases and explosions.
Because people are idiots and Hollyweird is talentless agenda pushers.
@@leestamm3187 ...and, NO Steroid-Head actors, no CGA. The Hero and Monster movies...they bring in the Dough. It shall Always be thus. Although the Early, "Classic" XXX films had a HUGE profit/cost ratio, as did a few Indie flicks, like "Clerks."
The Americans and Brits have done a lot of horrible things
Every nation has done horrible things at some point.
Not on this level
I know this is a very serious scene but I couldn’t help but smile at the teeny tiny typewriters.
Congress for appoving of The Patriot Act and the NDAA. President Obama for signing the NDAA. President Obama for executing people without trial.
Putin should be next on trial there.
Powerful climax to a powerful movie!
I didn’t realize James Kirk was a lawyer before he took over as Captain of the Starship Enterprise.
An incredible powerful film..
May we listen and learn.
WTH, Captain Kirk? He must have time travelled.
Spencer Tracy was a great actor and this was one of his finest performances.
From a time when we upheld values instead of the loathsome perversions of them
You obviously don’t know about the perversion of justice with japanese war criminals who were basically let go by the us govt
Every, single American today should view this, and meditate deeply on it.
Good movie, but only 1 of the judges was American. The others were British, French, and Russian, and it was the British judge who was in charge.
where can i find this film in its entirety?
This is more relevant today than at any time since. It's starting all over again, but this time not in one country, all over the world.
Almost 66 years old, and I'd add " The Oxbow Incident !"A particularly chilling look at hatred,fear, and mob justice ; ⚖️, they find out too late they hanged an innocent man! I saw this movie and others like it ; sadly, we haven't stopped human genocide yet ! Cambodia 🇰🇭-Pol Pot, Rwanda. And how many more past that 🤔 ?
Another great Spencer Tracy film is 'Bad Day At Black Rock' also about injustice.
One of the greatest actors ever.
Here here Steve, a total one off!
"A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for....it's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! Before the people of the world - let it now be noted that here in our decision this is what WE stand for: Justice, Truth....and the Value of a Single Human Being!"