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1. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Beah Richards, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Isabel Sanford, Cecil Kellaway
Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for ... More
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2. Inherit the Wind (1960)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Henry "Harry" Morgan
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 ... More
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3. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer
After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a ... More
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4. The Defiant Ones (1958)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John "Joker" Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, ... More
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5. Bless the Beasts and Children (1971)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Barry Robins, Miles Chapin, Darel Glaser, Bob Kramer
Bless the Beasts and Children is most fondly remembered as the film which introduced the song "Nadia's Theme" (better known as the title music for ... More
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6. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Kruger, Sergio Franchi
Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a pro-Mussolini slogan ... More
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7. On the Beach (1959)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry in this genre when ... More
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8. Ship of Fools (1965)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner
The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the ... More
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9. Oklahoma Crude (1973)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking
Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter George C. Scott signs on to work the ... More
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10. Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley (1975)
directed by Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer, a director known for his socially pointed films, tackles yet another political topic with Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William ... More
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11. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton
With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a ... More
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12. R.P.M. (1970)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis
Set against the political turmoil of the late 60's, R.P.M. (Revolutions Per Minute) stars Anthony Quinn as "Paco" Perez, a free-thinking liberal ... More
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13. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
directed by Frank Kramer, Stanley Kramer
featuring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf
As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million production The Pride and ... More
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14. Not as a Stranger (1955)
directed by Frank Kramer, Stanley Kramer
featuring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford
Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not especially attractive ... More
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