Martin Ritt Filmography

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literatur...

No Down Payment is a movie starring Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, and Tony Randall. In California, four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors face money problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination......

The Black Orchid is a movie starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, and Peter Mark Richman. Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren star as longtime widower Frank and recently widowed Rose, lonely hearts who discover something special in The......

Hud is a movie starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal. Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism......

Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission....

Hombre is a movie starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, and Richard Boone. John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when......

The Brotherhood is a movie starring Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, and Irene Papas. The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays......

The Molly Maguires is a movie starring Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and Samantha Eggar. In the Pennsylvanian coal mines of 1876, a group of Irish immigrant workers begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment....

Tillie Shlai's not looking forward to meeting yet another blind date. This one's name being Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heaven, he using wisecracking and constant flirtations with women to mask his own insec...

The Front is a movie starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, and Herschel Bernardi. In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand....

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive....

Emma moves to a ranch with her son after a divorce and befriends the older Murphy, but things turn complicated when her ex shows up....

A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night....