Tag: Martin Ritt

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 Long Hot Summer Script

Script by:William Faulkner (Writer), Irving Ravetch (Writer)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1958
IMDb:tt0051878

Plot:Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Script

Script by:John le Carré (Novel), Paul Dehn (Screenplay), Guy Trosper (Screenplay)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1965
IMDb:tt0059749

Plot:British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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Murphy’s Romance Script

Script by:Max Schott (Story)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0089643

Plot:Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.
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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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Sounder Script

Script by:Lonne Elder III (Screenplay), William H. Armstrong (Novel)
Directed by:Martin Ritt
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0069303

Plot:The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
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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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