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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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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 72% from 129 members
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  • Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Simone Signoret,  Jose Ferrer,  Lee Marvin
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Classic drama set on a German ocean liner during the Nazi regime of the 1930s. The fateful cruise follows the lives of its passengers including disciples of Naziism, wealthy Jewish men, sleazy dance troupes and bitter lovers along the 36-day-voyage. From the sad love affair between the ship's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 169 members
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  • A Child Is Waiting on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Bruce Ritchey,  Paul Stewart,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Drama starring Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland. Psychologist Dr Matthew Clark (Lancaster) runs a controversial boarding school for children with learning difficulties, known for its no-nonsense, tough love approach. When Clark recruits former concert pianist Jean Hansen (Garland) as the school's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 85 members
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  • Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Spencer Tracy,  Montgomery Clift
    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 1,230 member
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Dick York,  Florence Eldridge
    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 1,134 member
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  • On The Beach on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Ava Gardner,  Donna Anderson
    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 67% from 1,178 member
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  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: King Donovan,  Lawrence Dobkin,  Tony Curtis
    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 65% from 1,044 member
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  • The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Jose Ferrer,  Tom Tully
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 861 members
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  • The Wild One on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Hugh Sanders,  Petty Maley,  Jay C. Flippen
    Director: Laslo Benedek
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    What are you rebelling against? asks someone. What've you got? responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk Marlon Brando. It comes as a disappointment to discover that The Wild One, the quintessential Brando rebel film, is at base a traditional misunderstood youth vs. the nasty system effort, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 1,899 member
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  • The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Jose Ferrer,  Tom Tully
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Lt. Commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), the man in charge of the USS Caine, loses his head during a typhoon, his chief officers feel compelled to relieve him of his post. Upon their return to dry land, Queeg brings the men up on charges of mutiny. Co-starring Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 34 members
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  • High Noon on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Otto Kruger,  Ian MacDonald,  Katy Jurado
    Director: Fred Zinnemann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose leader (Ian McDonald) Will had arrested, is due ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,665 members
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  • Cyrano De Bergerac on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Morris Carnovsky,  Mala Powers,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Michael Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A 17th century man of letters, renowned for the size of his nose but also his wit, falls in love with a beautiful lady but is too afraid of her reaction to his looks to declare his feelings. Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for his performance. The story was remade in France during 1990 starring Gerard ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,232 member
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  • Champion on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Ruth Roman,  Marilyn Maxwell,  Kirk Douglas
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Kirk Douglas was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of a champion boxer who alienates his friends and family in his pursuit of greatness. He even stands up against the syndicate who want him to throw a fight. He refuses and the mob bosses put a price on his head - a hit he only survives with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 64 members
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Stanley Kramer facts

5 most recent films

Oklahoma Crude - 4.0 stars
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
Ship Of Fools - 3.5 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
High Noon - 3.5 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Oklahoma Crude - 4.0 stars
Cyrano De Bergerac - 3.0 stars
The Pride And The Passion - 3.0 stars
The Wild One - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Spencer Tracy - 9 times - show films
Claude Akins - 6 times - show films
Jose Ferrer - 5 times - show films
Lee Marvin - 5 times - show films
Sidney Poitier - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Frank Kramer - 2 times - show films
Edward Dmytryk - 2 times - show films
Michael Gordon - 1 times - show films
John Cassavetes - 1 times - show films
Laslo Benedek - 1 times - show films