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Stanley Kramer
Director 1913 - 2001

Stanley Kramer

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

14 titles
The Domino Principle

The Domino Principle

Stanley Kramer 1977 1h 38m 5.0

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.

Oklahoma Crude

Oklahoma Crude

Stanley Kramer 1973 1h 48m 5.0

Featuring four Academy Award® winners and directed by the legendary Stanley Kramer. A tough feminist, her estranged father and a grizzled hired hand try to take on a big oil company in Oklahoma.

Bless the Beasts & Children

Bless the Beasts & Children

Stanley Kramer 1971 1h 42m

Six children at a summer camp embark on a mission to save a buffalo herd from slaughter.

R.P.M.

R.P.M.

Stanley Kramer 1970 1h 32m 5.0

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 president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president.

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Stanley Kramer 1969 2h 19m 5.5

In the beginning there was Bombolini the fool, Bombolini the drunk, Bombolini the joke. In the end there was Bombolini the mayor, Bombolini the hero, Bombolini the beautiful. In between is the secret of Santa Vittoria.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Stanley Kramer 1967 1h 48m 7.1

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

Stanley Kramer 1965 2h 29m 7.3

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Stanley Kramer 1963 3h 12m 7.4

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer 1961 3h 11m 7.9

Judgment at Nuremberg is an American film based on the trials of 4 Nazi judges in Nuremberg Germany in 1948 by an American court.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

Stanley Kramer 1960 2h 8m 7.6

This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools.

On the Beach

On the Beach

Stanley Kramer 1959 2h 14m 5.5

The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

Stanley Kramer 1958 1h 36m 7.7

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion

Stanley Kramer 1957 2h 12m 5.0

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger

Stanley Kramer 1955 2h 15m 6.0

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years.

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