Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Ray Teal: Judge Curtiss Ives

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• Col. Tad Lawson : You know, there's one thing about Americans. We're not cut out to be occupiers. We're new at it. We're not very good at it. We - we - we come over here, and what do we see? We see this beautiful country. It is beautiful. It's very beautiful. We see the culture that goes back for hundreds of years. We see its 'gemutlich' charm and the charm of people like Mrs. Bertholt. We've got a built-in inferiority complex. We forgive and forget easy. We give the other guy the benefit of the doubt. That's the American way.

  [chuckles] 

  Col. Tad Lawson : We beat the greatest war machine since Alexander the Great. And now the boy scouts take over.

  Judge Curtiss Ives : The trouble with you, Colonel, is you'd like to indict the whole country. That might be emotionally satisfying to you, but it wouldn't be exactly practical, and hardly fair.

  Col. Tad Lawson : Hardly fair?

• Judge Curtiss Ives : As a matter of fact, Dan, I've been wondering how you stand.

  Judge Dan Haywood : I'll clarify that for you, Curtiss. I'm a rock-ribbed Republican - who thought that Franklin Roosevelt was a great man.

  Judge Curtiss Ives : Oh, one of those.

• Judge Curtiss Ives : That's one problem we have with the prosecution. It's filled with young radicals like Lawson.

  Judge Dan Haywood : Is that what Lawson is? A young radical?

  Judge Curtiss Ives : Well, he was a personal protégé of FDR.

  Judge Dan Haywood : Well, FDR had a few friends who weren't radicals, didn't he?

  Judge Curtiss Ives : Name one.

  Judge Dan Haywood : Wendell Wilkie.

  Judge Curtiss Ives : Wilkie? Is he your idea of a conservative?