Never Forget

1991 "His memory is the last link between murder and justice."

Never Forget

6.8 | 1h34m | en | Drama

Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.

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6.8 | 1h34m | en | Drama , TV Movie | More Info

Released: April. 08,1991 | Released Producted By: Turner Pictures (I) , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Leonard Nimoy , Dabney Coleman , Blythe Danner

Director

Kees Van Oostrum

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Reviews

Arif Mahmud I have seen this great movie 12-15 years ago. At that time I only know the most popular role titled Spock of Star Trek. That time I was interested for Lenard Nemoy only (as Spock)but when I end up with the movie, I was very much touched with its story which is quite similar to present situation of my country. The significant of the story is still has a great importance still now. I like to spreed the inspiration of this film to my people to aware & inspire them and its now become very essential to spreed this influence. I was just searching to find out the film & I need it very much. The plot of the story is quite similar to us. At present we are still facing the same situation. We have earned our freedom in 1971 but still facing as the role played by Leonar Nemoy in "Never Forget". It has brought me here today to find out this movie again. I like to thank & congratulate the team of this movie.

s_810 For a made for TV movie, it's not actually all that bad. Leonard Nimoy does a fine job and it's nice to see him step out of the Spock role every once in a while.Unfortunately it's takes a complex court case and turns into a simple good v evil morality play. It also unfairly portrays the villains as Nazis and anti-Semites, which they are not.Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the movie is the celebration of the judge's decision to take 'judicial notice' of pivotal facts in favor of Leonard Nimoy's character as a great victory when in fact this single action has suppressed historian's ability to factually investigate and understand one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century--the Holocaust.

NumptyB I watched this drama on television and was numb afterwards. You hear of flat-Earthers and 'lunar landings were fake' conspiracy theorists and just say to yourself "well - they pays their money... that's their beliefs and they're entitled to them..." Then 'Never Forget' shows you, through drama, the lengths the stuck minds and morally blind will go to to deafen themselves and others to the truth. We have our own paranoid denialists in Northern Ireland, who only see the wrong done them never the wrong they've done. They spout the kindred of the poison Mel Mermelstein had to put up with. A good portrait of a man driven by his convictions: Leonard Nimoy certainly deserves praise for telling Mel Mermelstein's story, let alone turning in a fine performance in the lead. Despite any dramatic licence taken I'd set this TV movie as course text for history at Ordinary Level: it is quite clearly still needed.

sail4me I know William Cox who is portrayed here by Dabney Coleman. After watching the video with him he told me that it was an accurate account of the events that took place. Mr. Cox suffered significant financial losses taking this case but felt a personal need to continue. The concept of using "Contract Law" to establish other legal precedents is now taught to first year law students as a result of this case. Perhaps someday the video will be more widely available.