Stanley Kramer
September 29, 1913 · 112 years old
Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), It'…
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19 titles
High Noon
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon tr...
Judgment at Nuremberg
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the California desert and, after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, turn against each other in a mad dash across the state to get to it.
Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Caine Mutiny
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
The Defiant Ones
Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
The Wild One
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
On the Beach
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
The Men
A paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.
Champion
Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans
The Sniper
A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.
The Pride and the Passion
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.
Pressure Point
A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
The Juggler
In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.
R.P.M.
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the heady days of campus activism in the late 1960's. Radical students take over the college, the...
