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Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner **** (1967, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton) – Classic Movie Review 3421

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1967 old-fashioned drawing room comedy drama is impeccably liberal minded and well meaning but it stirred up controversy by standing accused of patronising African Americans. Good hearted as it is, it was […]

Feb, 27

The Mountain **½ (1956, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, E G Marshall, Richard Arlen) Classic Movie Review 3398

Talented producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s high-climbing 1956 drama provides more evidence that mountain movies are fiendishly tricky to do, as they higher they climb the farther they fall. Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner play brothers Zachary […]

Feb, 22

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

The Last Hurrah **** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 3388

Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]

Feb, 20

Father’s Little Dividend *** (1951, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 3082

MGM’s hastily organised 1951 sequel to the studio’s big hit original 1950 Father of the Bride reunites the four original stars – Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor – with director Vincente […]

Nov, 23

Father of the Bride **** (1950, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 3081

Director Vincente Minnelli’s delightful 1950 black and white original comedy is so much better than the 1991 remake with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. Spencer Tracy stars as the proud but grumpy old father Stanley […]

Nov, 23

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