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Spencer Tracy has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Judgment at Nuremberg.
1954
Comedy · Drama

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Inherit the Wind
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%MGM+ · Included

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%MGM+ · Included

Boys Town
1938 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Dir. Victor Fleming · With Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Dir. John Sturges · With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Dir. Jack Conway · With Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Dir. George Cukor · With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday

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.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
Dir. Walter Lang · With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Dir. George Stevens · With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter

Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
Dir. John Sturges · With Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Dir. Norman Taurog · With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Dir. Victor Fleming · With Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
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