i catch this on turner last night . i happen to be in the history business and in a way and and be surprise at how good this still be . like most film adapt from play of the 30 and 40 and it never really transcend it stage origin and but i think it deal with the big issue of law and justice and morality and life and death in a way inconceivable in a politically correct age such a ours . we be much small people now . the conversation holmes have with his wife while she lie die in her bed be a masterpiece of really mature human communication and it not sappy or sentimental and it just heartbreaking in it honesty . the justice holmes of this film be oliver wendell holmes jr. and the son of the famous poet doctor of the same name who write old ironside and the autocrat of the breakfast table . the father and son be often confused . i be also delight by eduard franz underplayed portrayal of louis brandeis and the first jewish justice on the u supreme court and after whom brandeis university be name . i do not want this film to end and and will now look up the original stage play .