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Martin Ritt
Filmography
Martin Ritt - filmography
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Stanley And Iris
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Martha Plimpton, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Love story starring Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro. De Niro plays Stanley, a shy, illiterate short-order cook who's never taken a chance at love. Fonda plays Iris, a newly-widowed factory worker who's vowed to never love again. But as their friendship slowly blossoms and Iris helps Stanley learn to ..read more »
 
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Norma Rae
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Pat Hingle, Sally Field, Beau Bridges
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), ..read more »
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from 360 members
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Conrack
(1974)
Starring: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited ..read more »
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Sounder
(1972)
Starring: Carl Lumbly, Cecily Tyson, Kevin Hooks
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black share-croppers 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 ..read more »
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The Molly Maguires
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Anthony Zerbe, Sean Connery, Frank Finlay
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist ..read more »
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from 336 members
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Hombre
(1967)
Starring: Val Avery, Paul Newman
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun play.
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from 118 members
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Adventures Of A Young Man
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Nick Adams leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he ..read more »
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from 18 members
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Hud
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Brandon De Wilde, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Paul Newman plays Hud, the hard-drinking, 'no account' son of old style, moralising ranch owner Homer (Melvyn Douglas), in this brutal contemporary Western. Hud and Homer's relationship comes to a head when the government demands the slaughter of the family's complete cattlestock in order to ..read more »
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Paris Blues
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Diahann Carroll, Paul Newman, Louis Armstrong
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a jazz group, which also includes tenor man Eddie ..read more »
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from 190 members
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Five Branded Women
(1960)
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women (played by Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, and Carla Gravina)..read more »
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from 3 members
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The Black Orchid
(1958)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose's demand for a lavish lifestyle, pushed her husband to a life of crime, and they blame her for his death. Widower Frank Valente is attracted to Rose, and ..read more »
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