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  • The Defiant Ones
  • The Defiant Ones review by Cato from Shropshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Underrated classic 1 September 2006
    ...vers and swamps?) but for all this it was an exciting and well directed film by Stanley Kramer. ...   Read customer review
  • Inherit The Wind
  • Inherit The Wind review by from scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Just Perfection 28 August 2004
    ...This film by Stanley Kramer is juat a work of art.Based on a true story this story line depicts how ignorance and blind faith can generate a mob mentality.Tracy and March ha...   Read customer review

Stanley Kramer - filmography


  • Oklahoma Crude (1973)
    Starring: George C Scott,  Faye Dunaway,  John Mills
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    t's oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena Doyle, a hard-bitten, cynical feminist has a fight on her hands: the big oil companies don't like the fact that she's working a potentially profitable wildcat rig. Reluctantly, Lena must accept the aid of her estranged father Cleon, and Mason, the man he hires ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Anna Magnani,  Virna Lisi
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 118 members
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  • Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Simone Signoret,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret headline a stellar cast in the acclaimed drama about German exileswho are not allowed to anchor at American ports. In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 151 members
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  • Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Burt Lancaster,  Richard Widmark
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,143 member
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Gene Kelly,  Fredric March
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,061 member
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  • On The Beach on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Ava Gardner,  Fred Astaire
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Although there'd been doomsday dramas before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first important entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,073 member
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  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Tony Curtis,  Charles McGraw
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 990 members
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Stanley Kramer facts

5 most recent films

Oklahoma Crude - 3.0 stars
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
Ship Of Fools - 3.0 stars
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Inherit The Wind - 4.0 stars
Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 stars
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Oklahoma Crude - 3.0 stars
The Pride And The Passion - 3.0 stars
Ship Of Fools - 3.0 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.5 stars
On The Beach - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Spencer Tracy - 4 times - show films
Donna Anderson - 2 times - show films
Sidney Poitier - 2 times - show films
Claude Akins - 2 times - show films
Theodore Bikel - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Frank Kramer - 1 times - show films