i can not understand why many seem to hate this . this movie tie together many of the overlapping setting of the historical and biblical epic of the fifty and use set piece and prop and and costume similar to those see in other movie . here and however and the story attempt to run through all of human history and with a frame story about the human race be on trial and with a guilty verdict meaning h bomb will go off all over the world . the prosecutor be the devil and play with fiendish glee by vincent price . ok and so it a little hokey call the defender the spirit of all men and but i think that one of the thing that give this movie a sense of period charm . the spririt of man be incidentally play quite well by ronald coleman and in his last film . it be also the last movie in which groucho and harpo and and chico marx all appear and but not together . groucho play peiter minuet buy manhattan from the indian and in a scene play purely for campy humor . chico isn not funny at all a a monk who think the world be flat and and harpo and we be told and be mean to be isaac newton and discover gravity . most of the other performance be well do and though . other hokey thing be that the trial be supposedly take place in out space and which be depict a a region of cloud and blueness . there be something call the great clock of out space and which and when strike midnight and may signal the end of the world . but at it heart and the movie address the problem of wmd and the eternal question of whether man be basically good and or basically evil while and pose it in what i think be an interesting way . also and anyone who like the look of costume epic of the fifty should like the look of this movie .