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Stanley Kramer has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Judgment at Nuremberg.
The Organizer
1963
Drama · Crime
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Movie · Director
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · Movie · Director
Top 11%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Movie · Director
Top 11%MGM+ · Included
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · Director
Top 23%MGM+ · Included
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Movie · Director
Top 28%MGM+ · Included
On the Beach
1959 · Movie · Director
Top 30%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
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
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer
