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Stanley Kramer - what members say

The Defiant Ones review by Cato from Shropshire

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 review by from scotland

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:
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 »

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:
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 »

74% from 118 members

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner on DVD (1967)
Starring: Isabel Sanford, Beah Richards, Virginia Christine
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fiancé:..read more »

72% from 4,037 members

Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
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 »

64% from 151 members

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on DVD (1963)
Starring: Charles Lane, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
When an auto-crash victim (Jimmy Durante) reveals that he's hidden a fortune of stolen cash, a star-studded traffic jam of motorists sets out ot uncover the money. The film features one of the largest collections of American comedians (and Brit Terry-Thomas) ever put together on celluloid, ..read more »

68% from 1,748 member

Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
"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 »

74% from 1,143 member

Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Fredric March
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
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 »

75% from 1,061 member

On The Beach on DVD (1959)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
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 »

66% from 1,073 member

The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Charles McGraw
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
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 »

64% from 990 members

The Pride And The Passion on DVD (1957)
Starring: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
Director: Stanley Kramer, Frank Kramer
Certificate:
As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million production The Pride and the Passion. Adapted from The Gun, a novel by C. S. Forester, the film is set in Spain during the Napoleonic wars. Captain Anthony Trumbull (Cary Grant),..read more »

59% from 439 members

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