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  • Hombre
  • Hombre review by from Manchester
    Rated - 4 stars Hombre 23 February 2007
    ... like “Dance with Wolves” It is very well made with Mr. Newman teaming up with Martin Ritt. This is a excellant film, a true 60’s western. In this powerful drama, Paul Ne...  
  • Paris Blues
  • Paris Blues review by rififi from Middlesex
    Rated - 3 stars Jazz in Paris 5 February 2009
    ...d cinematic mileage back in 1961. In those days it was sex, drugs and jazz, and Martin Ritt’s film squeezes them all in and still finds room for the race question. The mai...  

Martin Ritt - filmography


  • Norma Rae on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Sally Field,  Beau Bridges,  Pat Hingle
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in the industrial South and based on a true story, Martin Ritt's NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a woman's fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works. Norma Rae (Sally Field) has worked at the textile mill for years, but when a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 257 members
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  • Hombre (1967)
    Starring: Val Avery,  Paul Newman
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 76 members
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  • Hud on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Patricia Neal,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Ritt's HUD is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel HORSEMAN, PASS BY, successfully transformed into an entertaining and ambitious contemporary Western. Set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle, and transistor radios coexist uneasily, the film stars Paul Newman as the hedonistic, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 841 members
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  • Five Branded Women (1960)
    Starring: Silvana Mangano,  Jeanne Moreau
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
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  • The Long Hot Summer (1958)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Joanne Woodward,  Anthony Franciosa
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When suspected barnburner Ben Quick (Newman) drifts into a town dominated by Will Varner (Welles), he is recruited to husband Varner's spinster daughter (Woodward) so that Varner can keep an eye on him. But the two men soon lock horns, and ultimately a chain of events leaves them all changed forever...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 28 members
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  • Adventures Of A Young Man on DVD
    Starring: Richard Beymer,  Diane Baker
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 70% from 2 members
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Martin Ritt facts

5 most recent films

Stanley And Iris - 3.0 stars
Nuts - 3.0 stars
Murphy's Romance - 3.0 stars
Norma Rae - 3.0 stars
The Front - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Spy Who Came In From The Cold - 3.5 stars
Hud - 3.5 stars
Hombre - 3.5 stars
Paris Blues - 3.0 stars
Norma Rae - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ernest Hemingway Collection - A Farewell To Arms/Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man/The Snows Of - 3 stars
Five Branded Women - 1.0 stars
Edge of the City - 1.5 stars
The Great White Hope - 2.5 stars
Adventures Of A Young Man - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Newman - 4 times - show films
Sally Field - 2 times - show films
Richard Beymer - 2 times - show films
Diane Baker - 2 times - show films
Joanne Woodward - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Henry King - 1 times - show films
Charles Vidor - 1 times - show films
Jean Negulesco - 1 times - show films
Jean - 1 times - show films