Martin Ritt

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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 asJazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
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…
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 after working to unionise her mill in this 1970s drama.
Nuts (1987): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss; 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…

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