Direction: Stanley Kramer

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Synopsis It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American Judge, Dan Haywood, has a daunting...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York

Synopsis Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Houghton

Synopsis Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw

Synopsis This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflicts take a...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi

Synopsis Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Fred Astaire · Anthony Perkins

Synopsis In 1964, nuclear 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...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Mitchum · Gloria Grahame · Frank Sinatra

Synopsis 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...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Vivien Leigh · Simone Signoret · Oskar Werner · José Ferrer

Synopsis Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer and Lee Marvin all give mature and passionate performances in this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's 1962 novel recounting the voyage of a German ship as it leaves Mexico on its way to Bremerhaven,...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast George C. Scott · Faye Dunaway · John Mills · Jack Palance

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Ann-Margret · Gary Lockwood · Paul Winfield

Synopsis 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...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Bill Mumy · Barry Robins · Miles Chapin · Darel Glaser

Synopsis A group of social misfits band together and run away from summer camp. Along the way, they take up a crusade to save penned in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Kathleen Quinlan · Maureen Stapleton · Ray Bolger

Synopsis Father Rivard is a priest in a small, economically depressed coal mining town. Working on what he thinks is a "controversial" work, he lives with the brutal lives of his poor parishioners, the old, unfriendly nuns in the nearby convent,...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · Richard Widmark · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Roy 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. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Cary Grant · Frank Sinatra · Sophia Loren · Theodore Bikel

Synopsis 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...

Direction Lee Bernhardi · Stanley Kramer

Cast Allan Arbus · Herschel Bernardi · Barbara Colby · George Cooper

Synopsis Julius and Ethel Rosenberg go from feeding the poor during the Depression to embracing the ideals of Communism. However, after WWII, the USSR is no longer a U.S. ally and the Rosenbergs' political activities become dangerously subversive.

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Leslie Charleson · Bill Overton · Richard Dysart · Rosetta LeNoire

Synopsis Two families are thrown into turmoil when a white woman marries a black man.

Direction Lee Bernhardi · Stanley Kramer

Cast Philip Ahn · Philip Bruns · William Devane · John Fujioka

Synopsis Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita when he was tried for his actions in the Philippines during World War 2 that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. And of how the lawyers assigned to defend him tried...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Musante · Richard Basehart · Bo Hopkins · Harrison Ford

Synopsis The trial and conviction of William "Rusty" Calley, an unknown 27-year-old lieutenant charged with the murder of 102 men, women, and children in the tiny Vietnamese village of My Lai, shocked the nation and split public opinion of the presence...