Tag: Spencer Tracy

Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Broken Lance’: A Rousing Tale of Revenge in the Old West

1954 | Not Rated | 1h 36m | Adventure, Drama, Western The 1950s saw a massive proliferation of American Westerns and, while many were excellent, an equal number could be considered mediocre or worse. “Broken Lance” (1954) is definitely from the former camp and takes the genre into the realm of familial drama. It’s based…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’

PG | 2 h 59 min | Drama | 1961 Stanley Kramer’s courtroom drama is set in Nuremberg, Germany in 1948. One of America’s several post-World War II trials is underway; together, the tribunals will charge German military officers, Nazi party leaders, doctors, industrialists, and judges for war crimes. In this trial, Chief Judge Haywood…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’: Stanley Kramer’s Metaphor for Family and Society

PG | 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy | 1967 Stanley Kramer’s “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” is all of 108 minutes, but packed with truth and insight that echoes beyond its genre, its generation, and its geography. Young Joanna or Joey (Katharine Houghton) tells her parents, Christina (Katharine Hepburn) and Matt (Spencer Tracy), of her…