Winner of eight Oscars including best picture, director, actor, supporting actress and screenplay. Marlon Brando leads an amazing cast which includes Eva Martie Saint, Rod Steiger, lee J Cobb, Karl Malden and even, in his film debut Fred Gwynne who later on was to become immortalised as Herman Munster.
the film itself, is controversial in that it is said to be analogous to the House of Un-American Activities hearings of the fifties and a response by Elia Kazan to The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
there is no doubt that this is a very good movie, and it is not just Brando's "I could have been someone soliloquy. The acting is stunning from Brando to Malden and Saint.
The story is a rich layered morally complex treatise on truth, justice and what is the right thing to do. It is a positive movie and one that has resonance even today fifty six years after it was made.
A truly compelling movie, and worthy of its status.
My rating = 8 out of 10.
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