The producer of the Concentration
Camp films shown at the Nuremberg Trial prosecuted by Robert H. Jackson
appeared at the Jackson Center at 12:30 noon, Monday, January 26. The public
attended free-of-charge.
Budd Schulberg, an Oscar Award-winning movie producer and screenwriter best
known for such works as On the Waterfront, What Makes Sammy Run? and The
Harder They Fall, spoke in Jamestown about his experiences filming the plight
of Nazi Concentration Camp victims in World War II. These films were used
as part of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal Trials following the War.
Budd Schulberg began as a screenwriter in Hollywood who went on to write
novels about Hollywood and boxing. After returning to screenwriting, he
won the Academy Award for On the Waterfront. Other films included The Harder
They Fall and A Face in the Crowd. He published his autobiography, Moving
Pictures : Memories of a Hollywood Prince in l981.
“The exciting aspect of Schulberg’s appearance at the Jackson
Center,” says Robert H. Jackson Center President Gregory L. Peterson,
“is the fact that Schulberg – famous for his entertaining movies
and books – had never spoken publicly about the films he produced
for the Nuremberg Trials.”
“The films which documented the terrible atrocities at the Nazi Concentration
Camps were used by Jamestown’s Justice Jackson in the prosecution
of the top Nazi leaders in Nuremberg,” explains Peterson. “He
discussed this part of his career for the first time ever in Jackson’s
own community.”
At the same time, says Peterson, Schulberg described his work in Hollywood.
His treasure trove of stories included his work with authors such as F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as well as with sports boxing figures.
The event was sponsored by Lake Shore Savings Bank, C.O.D.E., Inc. and L.J.
Stein Insurance.
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