Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021 TV Movie)
Budd Schulberg: Self
Quotes
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Budd Schulberg : It's something that is hard to ever erase from you mind.
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Budd Schulberg : Someone asked me what was almost like the most horrifying moment of all the horrifying moments. And I said I think it may be in the - in that German film on - on Warsaw. They show just where the poor emaciated bodies are being buried. And they have a cameraman, a German cameraman, right down deep in the pit shooting up as these emaciated, naked bodies are being flung past him. They are actually doing - they are not exposing from the other side - this is them, photographing what they were doing, including the most unbelievable, I mean, women with infants were being thrown down past the cameraman.
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Budd Schulberg : Major Avenarius, I'll never forget him, and he says, "I don't understand why is it a young naval officer coming into Soviet-controlled Germany. I just don't understand what you're doing?" So, I said, "Look, it's a long story, Major, but, we're part of the - of the - of Commander John Ford's..." I kind of got that far and he said, "John Ford!" In one word, he said, "John Ford!" He said, "You know John Ford?" And I said, "Yeah, we work - he's our boss." Well, he says, like, "I have written two books about John Ford." He - it turns out that this man is the biggest expert on John Ford in the world. He wants to know movie by movie by movie - every single one. He got so excited, he said, "Remember that shot in 'Young Abe Lincoln,' when Henry Ford has his foot put up on a desk and they're shooting it - remember the angle?" Now, he's our friend. He'd really do anything for us. He said, "Come on." He's got all the negatives of films that we'd been looking for. And he actually said, like, "Bring a truck. You can take anything you want."
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Budd Schulberg : The SS had its own film unit and that they made what they called reports, we would call it atrocities, but, it was work that they were very proud of - killing all these Jews and doing all this all, from their point of view, purifying, cleansing Germany - and eventually all of Europe. They told me that these films, they were often 2-reel films would be shown at the homes of the Nazi leaders, like Goebbels and Himmler, Hitler, and the rest of them. And they called them, "Desserts." Because they showed them as a sort of entertainment, after dinner.
