The opening sequence of the original TV version of Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg, telecast live by CBS on Playhouse 90 on April 16, 1959. The performance, directed by George Roy Hill, stars Claude Rains, Paul Lukas, Maximilian Schell, and Melvyn Douglas and is introduced by Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor at the real-life Nuremberg war-crimes trials. Mann’s teleplay was subsequently adapted for the screen in a version directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy:
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