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American film production company.

Stanely Kramer established Screen Plays Inc in 1947, but three years later founded Stanley Kramer Productions in association with United Artists. His first films produced by the new company were Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and High Noon (1952). He then moved Stanley Kramer productions to Columbia Pictures to become an in-house independent under a five-year, 30-picture deal. In 1954 he established the Stanley Kramer Picture Corporation, which saw his films once again released through United Artists. As the budgets increased, so did the company's range of films. Between 1953 and 1959 Stanley Kramer Picture Corporation produced such films as: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), The Wild One (1954), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Defiant Ones (1958) and On the Beach (1959). Later films include: Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Pressure Point (1962), It's a Mad Mad World (1963), Ship of Fools (1965), Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) and The Runner Stumbles (1979.