a theory of Cinema

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Over the years, I have come to develop a theory that, if you ever encountered someone who worked on the original Star Trek, you have a link to many people who shaped Cinema. You also have a link to some people who messed up History, but more on that later.

The most obvious example is William Shatner(1). To use but one example, he was in 1961's Judgment at Nuremberg, which was directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. Its cast included, among others, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, and Marlene Dietrich. Among other movies that DeForest Kelley worked on was 1957's Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Elizabeth Taylor, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, and Lee Marvin. As for Leonard Nimoy, he played opposite Howard da Silva in the original Outer Limits episode I, Robot.

So, just taking the above Three, you reach out to people who themselves reached out to a lot of others in the History of Cinema. And that doesn't include the actors who appeared in Star Trek itself. My favorite example is episode Amok Time.



No, not Lawrence Montaigne, although he was in 1963's The Great Escape, the cast of which wasn't too shabby. I mean Celia Lovsky.



When she was still living in Europe, she is the person who introduced Peter Lorre to Fritz Lang who, in 1933, was offered the job of director of the German Cinema Institute by Joseph Goebbels. Lang accepted the job. And promptly left Germany.

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(1) Very obvious, some meanies would say.