Mankind has developed a world ending super bomb. Mr. Scratch aka The Devil (Vincent Price) and The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) must debate the survival of humanity before the Outer Space High Tribunal. They bring historical characters and events to make their cases.
I mostly checked this out for the Marx Brothers. Groucho does a weird comedic skit swindling the native Americans out of Manhattan after an hour of semi serious trek through history. It's odd to have a couple of comedic skits in an otherwise serious dissertation of good and evil. It's also obvious that this is a clip show stealing large crowd scenes in other cinematic epics. Non of the historical dramas are that dramatic. Nothing is truly compelling. The connective tissue is the trial which is terribly dry. I did laugh at Groucho mostly due to the clash of tones. It's not a good movie.
I mostly checked this out for the Marx Brothers. Groucho does a weird comedic skit swindling the native Americans out of Manhattan after an hour of semi serious trek through history. It's odd to have a couple of comedic skits in an otherwise serious dissertation of good and evil. It's also obvious that this is a clip show stealing large crowd scenes in other cinematic epics. Non of the historical dramas are that dramatic. Nothing is truly compelling. The connective tissue is the trial which is terribly dry. I did laugh at Groucho mostly due to the clash of tones. It's not a good movie.