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Hud Script

Script by:Larry McMurtry (Novel), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1963
IMDb:tt0057163

Plot:Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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The Reivers Script

Script by:Irving Ravetch (Screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (Screenplay), William Faulkner (Novel)
Directed by:Mark Rydell
Year:1969
IMDb:tt0064886

Plot:In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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Conrack Script

Script by:Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Pat Conroy (Novel)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071358

Plot:A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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Hombre Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1967
IMDb:tt0061770

Plot:John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Norma Rae Script

Script by:Irving Ravetch (Screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (Screenplay)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0079638

Plot:Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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