Martin Ritt
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Long Hot Summer, The (1958)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman
- The steam rises in this William Faulkner adaptation about sex and sin in the small–town South. With a tyrannical Orson Welles, and Joanne…
- Paris Blues (1961)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward…
- Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier as Jazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
- Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Beymer, Diane Baker
- Drama from director Martin Ritt (HUD), based on Ernest Hemingway's semi–autobiographical character Nick Adams, a restless young man who leaves…
- Hud (1963)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas…
- Handsome idler Paul Newman sows the seeds of trouble in this excellent modern–day Texas western, with his piercing eyes and calculated slouch…
- Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom…
- Stark yet gripping adaptation of John Le Carre's espionage novel. Richard Burton plays the dispossessed spy reluctantly engaged in the most dangerous…
- Hombre (1966)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone…
- Paul Newman portrays the sombre hombre, a white man brought up by the Apache, who helps the red–neck passengers of an ambushed stagecoach.…
- Molly Maguires, The (1970)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar…
- An ambitious drama set in the squalor of the 1870s Pennsylvania coalmine towns, and the underground group of Irish saboteurs 'The Molly Maguires' who…
- Sounder (1972)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks…
- Celebrated tale of a family of black sharecroppers struggling in the the American South during the 1930s.
Hooks is excellent as a teenager who…
- Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page…
- Bittersweet character story of a smarmy rogue and an aging virgin who get married despite fundamental differences which remain unaltered nine years…
- Conrack (1974)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Hume Cronyn
- Based on the true experiences of a teacher in a sunlit backwater of South Carolina, Jon Voight gives one of his best performances, trying to rouse…
- Front, The (1976)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Woody Allen
- Woody Allen in a rare pure acting role plays a young cashier asked to 'front' for a blacklisted writer during the McCarthy era. Satire at its most…
- Norma Rae (1979)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges
- Sally Field won the 1979 Best Actress Oscar for her portrait of a feisty textile factory worker in North Carolina who becomes involved in the labour…
- Nuts (1987)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton…
- Barbra Streisand must prove her sanity in order to stand trial for manslaughter. Richard Dreyfuss helps out with some heavy duty courtroom banter.
- Stanley and Iris (1990)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz…
- Adapted from the novel 'Union Street' by Pat Barker, and transposed to the USA, this concerns a grieving widow (Fonda) who teaches a…