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Tag Archives: Stanley Kramer
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Stanley Kramer, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. Read More »
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria Read More »
On the Beach (1959) Stanley Kramer, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary Read More »
The Pride and the Passion (1957) Stanley Kramer, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French Read More »
The Domino Principle (1977) Stanley Kramer, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can’t seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. Read More »
Inherit the Wind (1960) Stanley Kramer, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Biography, Drama, History
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act Read More »
The Defiant Ones (1958) Stanley Kramer, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Crime, Drama
Oklahoma Crude (1973) Stanley Kramer, George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Comedy, Drama, Western
It’s oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena Doyle, a hard-bitten, cyncial 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. Read More »
Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) Stanley Kramer, Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin, Comedy, Drama
A group of social misfits at a summer camp.for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.
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Not As a Stranger (1955) Stanley Kramer, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »
Ship of Fools (1965) Stanley Kramer, Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Drama, Romance, War
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 doctor who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Contessa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are. The once famous Mary Treadwell gets much of her attention.
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R.P.M. (1970) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Drama
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. 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. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn’s character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
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