A movie that moved TP?

[Henry M]

Luck with Rainbows, a 1965 episode of the USA television series "Combat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QLZbK_eFr8
Yours truly,
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Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> I am not as up on movies as some on the list, but when I get the chance I
> try to watch something worthwhile. Last night I caught a movie on TV that I
> had no idea about until I saw it. As soon as I saw Spencer Tracy, Burt
> Lancaster and some others I knew it would be good.
>  Judgement at Nuremburg was released in 1961 (filmed in black and white,
> at first I thought it was older) so it's a pretty safe bet that TP would
> have seen it. As far as I know this was one of the first films to refer to
> the horror of the Shoah and use images from the liberation of the camps by
> allied forces in ´45. Towards the end of the film IG Farben is mentioned,
> and a final note at the end of the film mentions that of the people
> convicted and encarcerated at Nuremburg none remained in prison at the time
> of the film´s release. Might this have set TP's wheels spinning? I don´t
> mean to imply that it was the origin of his idea for GR, but could it have
> been significant? What other films at that time might have moved TP to
> write?
>
> ciao
> mc otis
>
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