Rank the performances

1. Schell - I would actually give him all spots as he is spellbinding
2. Clift
3. Tracy
4. Garland
5. Dietrich
6. Lancaster
7. Klemperer
8. Shatner
9. Widmark

1. Maximilian Schell
2. Spencer Tracy
3. Burt Lancaster
4. Judy Garland
5. Montgomery Clift
6. Richard Widmark
7. Marlene Dietrich

No.

Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.

1. Maximilian Schell (one of the all-time best)
2. Burt Lancaster (he doesn't say much, but when he does...)
3. Judy Garland
4. Montgomery Clift
5. Spencer Tracy
6. Werner Klemperer (took a lot of guts for a Polish Jew to play that part)
7. Richard Widmark
8. Marlene Dietrich (by no means a bad job)



The sunshine bores the daylights out of me

Clift
Garland
Schell

Everyone else tied for fourth.

I thought they all were outstanding, but I found Burt Lancaster's performance to be the best- the most riveting. Especially when he shouts "Enough" at Garland's testimony and cross examination and his comment to Tracy at the end that he never knew the atrocities would become so great.

1. Clift
2. Schell
3. Lancaster
4. Garland
5. Tracy
6. Widmark
7. Dietrich
8. Shatner
9. Klemperer
10.Virginia Christine (when Tracy was questioning her and the husband about what they knew.)

All were FANTASTIC.