Cinema: Mr. Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.

DIRECTOR: Errol Morris OPENS: Dec. 29 in N.Y.C. and L.A.; wide in Jan.

To do good you don't need a graduate degree, just a smart idea. To do harm you don't need bad intentions, just a plodding arrogance. Those truisms are at the heart of the latest documentary enthraller from artful Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, A Short History of Time). Fred Leuchter won renown for devising more "humane" electric chairs, gallows and gas chambers. Now considered an expert in all aspects of state torture, Leuchter was hired by Ernst Zundel, a prominent denier of the Holocaust, to use his...

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