The acting, the writing, the direction, just about everything on CBS's Playhouse go last week gave eloquent testimony to television's real potential. Judgment at Nuremberg was a bitterly moving reminder of Nazi Germany's era of evil—so moving, in fact, that for once the commercials supplied some necessary moments of relief. But they were also the source of some of the most naive censorship ever to be inflicted on a show.
After the film clips of concentration camps with their crematoriums, Judgment built to its climax in a live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul...
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