Stanley Kramer, Director and Producer of ‘Message’ Films, Dies at 87. To any film-lover, the list will amaze: High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, The Wild One, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg, On the Beach, The Caine Mutiny, Ship of Fools, and the over-the-top It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. New York Times