Title: Show Trial
Review: Spencer Tracy is always worth watching, but this film is static, didactic and predictable. People who praise it love its agenda, but are tone deaf about what makes a movie a movie. Now, nothing prevents propaganda from achieving artistry. But where an Eisenstein or Riefenstahl can fill a screen with action and drive, Stanley Kramer can only pull off an ideological back-to-school-night that does nothing to change or challenge minds.There's no drama here. The prosecution writes the script. The defendants are buffoons. The verdict is foreordained. The gallery goes home happily reconfirmed in its moral refinement. In short, a Hollywood show trial.
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