Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner, in ill health, owns many businesses Read More »
Tag Archives: Martin Ritt
No Down Payment (1957) Martin Ritt, Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall
The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Read More »
The Slugger’s Wife (1985) Hal Ashby, Michael O’Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt
Darryl Palmer (Michael O’Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets Read More »
Sounder (1972) Martin Ritt, Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933 Read More »
The Great White Hope (1970) Martin Ritt, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert
Boxer Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) is the world’s reigning heavyweight boxing champion. Read More »
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Martin Ritt, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father Read More »
The Black Orchid (1958) Martin Ritt, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman
After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Read More »
Edge of the City (1957) Martin Ritt, John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
Drifter Axel North has just arrived in New York City, having traveled from city to city throughout the country. Read More »
Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972) Martin Ritt, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page
Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn’t marry soon. Read More »
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Martin Ritt, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom
Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. Read More »
Conrack (1974) Martin Ritt, Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair
White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District Read More »
Hud (1963) Martin Ritt, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Read More »
Paris Blues (1961) Martin Ritt, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Drama, Music, Romance
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike the US at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. Read More »
The Sound and the Fury (1959) Martin Ritt, Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Drama
Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Read More »
The Molly Maguires (1970) Martin Ritt, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Drama, History
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. Read More »