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QB VII

  • TV Mini Series
  • 1974
  • 6h 30m
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7.7/10
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Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, and Leslie Caron in QB VII (1974)
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A physician (Sir Anthony Hopkins) sues a novelist (Ben Gazzara) for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.A physician (Sir Anthony Hopkins) sues a novelist (Ben Gazzara) for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.A physician (Sir Anthony Hopkins) sues a novelist (Ben Gazzara) for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

  • Stars
    • Ben Gazzara
    • Anthony Hopkins
    • Leslie Caron
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    7.7/10
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    • Stars
      • Ben Gazzara
      • Anthony Hopkins
      • Leslie Caron
    • 17User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    • Won 6 Primetime Emmys
      • 6 wins & 11 nominations total

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    Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, and Leslie Caron in QB VII (1974)
    Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, and Leslie Caron in QB VII (1974)
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    QB VII (1974)
    Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, and Leslie Caron in QB VII (1974)
    Ben Gazzara in QB VII (1974)
    Ben Gazzara and Anthony Quayle in QB VII (1974)
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    Ben Gazzara
    Ben Gazzara
    • Abe Cady
    Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins
    • Adam Kelno
    Leslie Caron
    Leslie Caron
    • Angela Kelno
    Dan O'Herlihy
    Dan O'Herlihy
    • David Shawcross
    Robert Stephens
    Robert Stephens
    • Robert Highsmith
    Anthony Quayle
    Anthony Quayle
    • Tom Banniester
    Milo O'Shea
    Milo O'Shea
    • Dr. Stanislaus Lotaki
    Kristoffer Tabori
    Kristoffer Tabori
    • Ben Cady
    Lee Remick
    Lee Remick
    • Lady Margaret
    Julian Glover
    Julian Glover
    • Zaminski
    Vladek Sheybal
    Vladek Sheybal
    • Sobotnik
    Anthony Andrews
    Anthony Andrews
    • Stephen Kelno
    Alan Napier
    Alan Napier
    • Semple
    Juliet Mills
    Juliet Mills
    • Samantha Cady
    Edith Evans
    Edith Evans
    • Dr. Parmentier
    John Gielgud
    John Gielgud
    • Clinton-Meek
    Jack Hawkins
    Jack Hawkins
    • Justice Gilroy
    Judy Carne
    Judy Carne
    • Natalie
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    • Trivia
      This mini-series, and the original novel, are a fictionalized version of the real-life lawsuit filed against author Leon Uris by Dr. Wladislaw Dering over a one-line reference in Uris' best-selling novel, "Exodus," about Dering's wartime record in a Nazi concentration camp. As in this mini-series, the concentration camp surgical records were produced, but on loan from the Polish government, not after being kept in hiding. Dering, like Adam Kelno (Sir Anthony Hopkins), collected only one half-penny in damages, and was forced to pay his own substantial legal costs.
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      Narrator: [Opening Credits] This is the story of the lives of two men who fought each other in one of the most fascinating trials in modern history. The trial took place in QB VII: Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. There, Sir Adam Kelno, a refugee European doctor and concentration camp survivor brought suit for libel against Abraham Cady, World War II ace and world-famous American novelist. For nearly 30 years, they lived their lives unaware of each other until they came into explosive contact in our time in these medieval court buildings. In the lives of these two men, in their conflict in this tragedy, is the heart of a story of a generation that in the unforgettable phrase of those times, "at a rendezvous with destiny."

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      Featured in The 27th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1975)

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    9/10
    Vindication At the Queen's Bench
    One of the earliest of TV mini-series casts Anthony Hopkins and Ben Gazzara who are the plaintiff and defendant in a libel suit. The case is being settled in the courtroom number seven of the Queen's Bench in London, QB VII. What Gazzara is accusing Hopkins of is monstrous indeed, the participation of experiments on Jews in the concentration camp of forced sterilization which involved chemical and physical castration.

    Not an easy thing to prove because since World War II, Hopkins, an anti-Communist Polish refugee has been knighted by the Queen for his humanitarian work among the Arab desert tribes. That's probably no accident he chose to settle there with his wife Leslie Caron and son who grows up to be Anthony Andrews. The shifting sands of the Cold War has made such charges tinged with political overtones.

    Gazzara is author Leon Uris inserted into the novel and Uris himself doesn't paint a flattering portrait. He's one of Jewish heritage who is not terribly religious. Gazzara married a British girl, Juliet Mills, who was a nurse seeing to his recovery and they have a son who grows up to be Kristoffer Tabori. Gazzara becomes a hack Hollywood screenwriter and gets rich and bored. But he then writes an epic Jewish novel the way Leon Uris wrote Exodus of deeply researched historical fiction and he names Hopkins and what he allegedly did.

    This is by no means a strange phenomenon. From the Fifties through the Nineties we heard stories of former Nazis turning up in all kinds of places and in plain sight, not hiding in the deep recesses of Argentina or Paraguay which seemed to be favored by Nazis of higher rank and profile like Dr. Mengele. The President of Austria in the Eighties, Kurt Waldheim had his Nazi past uncomfortably exposed once he was in office. And Ivan Demjanjuk at the ripe old age of 95 after years as an automobile worker in the USA just got sentenced for his war crimes. I doubt we'll be seeing too many more though.

    QB VII got a flock of Emmy Awards and nominations including in the Supporting Acting category for Juliet Mills and Anthony Quayle who plays the barrister representing Gazzara. His cross examination scene with Hopkins is devastating. And of course Gazzara and Hopkins are at their usual sterling best.

    QB VII marked the farewell performance of Jack Hawkins who had for several years performed without a voice box due to throat cancer which finally claimed him. In QB VII a voice similar to his was used which was not always the case. In a sense this film is his because Hawkins plays the judge presiding over the court in QB VII.

    This mini-series holds up very well today and I recommend it highly for viewers who are interested in Holocaust justice and the unfortunate politics that sometimes accompanies it.
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    • Release date
      • April 29, 1974 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Королевская скамья VII
    • Production companies
      • Douglas S. Cramer Company
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      6 hours 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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