Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

gridoon2018 Sexy Sophia is always worth watching (even when saddled with possibly the worst hairstyle of her career), and she is well-supported here by Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins and Hans Verner, but this is one of her lesser films. More than the entire first hour is all setup, and lacks tension. Things get a little more engaging in the last half hour, and the film does close with some well-staged epic-scale battle scenes. So it's not quite the BOMB Leonard Maltin classifies it as. But the ending leaves the story unfinished - were they naively hoping for a "Judith II"? **1/2 out of 4.

clanciai Underrated drama widely more interesting and exciting than the mammoth "Exodus", which by all means has its great qualities, but this is more universal in its deeper human presentation. Sophia Loren has been described as miscast in this role, but that doesn't diminish her acting qualities. She is always superb and no less here than in any other of her films. It's true, her make-up and hair style, eye mascara and sometimes overwhelming sex appeal might seem a little out of place for a concentration camp veteran with a past as a German officer's s fling bent only revenge in extreme bitterness dominating all her life, but Sophia Loren manages it. Although she is as flamboyant a character as she is, she makes even this ruin of a girl a convincing character.Peter Finch is equally good and as perfect as ever, while Jack Hawkins as the major approaching the end of the line gives the film the one soft touch it needs to become supremely interesting.Saul Kaplan's music is also very adequate, actually vying with the "Exodus" theme sometimes, so there is nothing wrong with this film. On the contrary, it is underrated and as a human drama much more interesting and engaging than "Exodus", and Peter Finch is more convincing than Paul Newman.

weezeralfalfa Judith Aurbach (Sophia Loren) is an extremely rare survivor of a Nazi death camp. She is now(1948) at a refugee camp awaiting a chance to enter the prospective state of Israel. Her husband, Gustav Schiller, a former Nazi tank corps commander, is reported to be in this general area. Her primary goal is to find him and extract revenge upon him for revealing to the Gestapo that she was a Jew, thus fit to be sent to a concentration camp. She also is driven to find her son, if he is alive, also thought to be in this general region. The Jewish underground also wants to capture Schiller, who is reported to be heading the Syrian tank corps. They hope to extract what he knows about the Syrian war plans against Israel and the location of their tank corps. Since there is no good photo of Schiller available to the Israelites, They want to bring Judith into the 'çountry' and use her to identify Schilling, should they encounter him. She is hidden in a secrete compartment of a crate, along with other things, and shipped to Israel, where her crate passes immigration inspection. She is sent to a kibbutz adjacent to a border with Syria. The Syrians occasionally fire ordinance into the kibbutz, mostly to remind the Israelis that they are there. Once, they fired missiles that set part of the kibbutz on fire. She hated most of the menial work assigned to her, and was not pleased that, once again, she was in the midst of a war zone. The British military, preparing to soon withdraw from the region, is reported to keep a file on ex-Nazi war criminals, and which may contain information about the recent whereabouts of Schiller. So, how to obtain such information? It's decided that Judith will travel to Haifa, and try to 'charm' Major Lawton into handing over the relevant file. Seems like an impossible venture, but Judith eventually pulls it off. Now Judith, Aaron(Peter Finch), and a companion are smuggled into Damascus, where Schiller is reported to have been recently. Judith spots him at an outdoor café. He recognizes her, but can't believe she's alive. He doesn't let on that he suspects her, but follows her when she walks toward where Aaron and the other are hiding. When she stops in front of their hiding place, they acknowledge that they are who they think they are. Then, Judith pulls a gun and fires. Schiller falls, badly wounded. Judith is castigated for exercising her chance for revenge over the goal of capturing and interrogating him. Somehow, they smuggle Schiller out of Syria and take him to Judith's kibbutz, where he is interrogated.He refuses to divulge any info the interrogates want. They know that physical mistreatment could easily kill him in his condition, thus the interrogators leave him for the day. But ,Judith later sneaks into his room and gets him to talk some, threatening him with another gun shot. He tells where the attack will mainly come from(Why couldn't this info be obtained from reconnaissance planes?). Schiller also mentions he knows where their son is, but delays telling where. I will stop my summary here, and let you see the climax, perhaps on YouTube.This is a very implausible story, beginning with the chance that the Jewish wife of a Nazi general is one of the very few survivors of Nazi extermination camps. It's very unclear how the little team managed to smuggle a badly injured Schiller out of Syria. Also, the possibility that Major Lawton would hand over sensitive files to Judith(even if she was Sophia Loren) seems preposterous. There are also a few instances when it wasn't clear to me what was going on. On the other hand, it is an interesting story of the chances people will take to accomplish important goals, gives a fair exposure to what kibbutz are like, and has some good battle scenes.

MartinHafer I am a big believer in historical accuracy in films and when a film excels I try to point it out...and when it fails I quickly do the same. In many ways. "Judith" is a fine film but when it comes to the central character, the filmmakers seem much more concerned about Sophia Loren as a sexy 1960s icon than a credible actress. Too often, she is inexplicably wearing what appear to be Chanel suits and is perfectly coiffed...like a 1960s Italian movie star. However, the film is supposed to be about a Jewish woman who escaped extermination in a Nazi death camp....and showing the lovely and super well-coiffed Loren in this role seemed not only stupid but a bit insulting.Judith (Loren) is a woman who miraculously survived a death camp. She's lost her son and her husband, Gustav Schiller, turned her in to the SS!! Not surprisingly, she hates the man and wants him dead- -but she also wants to force him to tell her what happened to their son. However, the Haganah (Israeli Defense) wants the guy as well, as he's now working with the Syrians--using his knowledge about German tank tactics to aid in the destruction of the soon to be announced state of Israel. If they had completely re-cast the part of Judith, had her at least appear in passing to be possibly Jewish and they had her wear normal and appropriate clothing for the era, the film would have been much, much better. Still, it's a strong story and worth seeing--that's why in spite of the problems I still give it a 7. How and why Loren was cast for this film is something I would really love to see. I am NOT being anti-Loren--she was marvelous in many movies but this one is just well beyond her range. Had the filmmakers done a better job in this respect, the film easily could have earned an 8 or 9.