Stanley Earl Kramer was a film director and producer whose best movies dealt with social issues, Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in The Defiant Ones and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), nuclear war (in On the Beach), greed (in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), creationism vs. evolution (in Inherit the Wind), and the causes and effects of fascism (in Judgment at Nuremberg). His other films included High Noon (1952) The Caine Mutiny (1954) and Ship of Fools (1965).