Loretta Swit, Sandy Dennis, Valerie Harper |
In San Diego in 1970, several women who were survivors of the Birkenau concentration camp and who somehow met up with each other years later, get together each week to play mah jongg. Elsa (Sandy Dennis) spots a restaurant owner named Walter Grauman (Rip Torn of Sweet Bird of Youth) on a TV ad and is afraid that he may actually be Wilheim Gehbert, who raped and brutalized the women at Birkenau and was responsible for several thousand deaths. Marysia (Loretta Swit) agrees to find out if Walter has a certain scar on his back, and winds up sleeping with him when he doesn't. However, she is in for a rude awakening the next morning. The ladies decide that one of them will secretly murder Grauman, but things get complicated when an innocent man is arrested for the crime ...
Rip Torn with Loretta Swit |
Verdict: No one expected Judgment at Nuremberg, but a film with this premise should have been much, much, more powerful -- Swit can not be faulted, however. **3/4.
2 comments:
Interesting. Did not see this when it first aired even though I remember hearing about it. I am fascinated. Great cast! Definitely worth a look!
-Chris
P.S. HUGE fan of the eccentric Miss Dennis here, by the way! LOL
You may be a bit disappointed with her in this. Besides, it's really Swit's show all the way. I think I found this on youtube.
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