Martin Ritt

...actor Oscar nomination for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Long, Hot Summer," director Martin Ritt's engrossing melodrama based on William Faulkner stories. Newman gives a sexy, charismatic...

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Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 - December 8, 1990) was an American director , actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City. Ritt originally attended and played football for Elon College in North...

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...Billy and Bobby Mauch, Kevin McCarthy , Gary Merrill, Ray Middleton, Barry Nelson, Edmond O'Brien, Walter Reed , George Reeves, Martin Ritt, Archie Robbins, David Rose, Henry Rowland , Alfred Ryder, Howard Shoup, Henry and Jack Slate,...

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...adapted from Lauren Weisberger's bestseller. Stanley Tucci and Simon Baker also star. (8 p.m., FX) THE LONG, HOT SUMMER - Director Martin Ritt's 1957 adaptation of the William Faulkner novel stars real-life lovebirds Paul Newman and Joanne...

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Back Roads is a 1981 film starring Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. It is directed by Martin Ritt. It got middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. Amy Post (played by Field) is a $20-a-trick hooker in Mobile, Alabama.

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...for students. Call 609-884-1341. Only the lonely Paul Newman was never better than as the alienated, amoral, antihero cowboy in Martin Ritt's 1963 drama Hud, based on Larry McMurtry's modern Western novel. The film screens at 7 p.m. at...

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...of heavy rain and ended up using the entire local water supply in creating the rainstorm effect. Rashomon was remade by Martin Ritt in 1964 as 'The Outrage'. In Ran (1985), an entire castle set was constructed on the slopes of Mt Fuji...

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Director(s): Martin Ritt. Screenplay: Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper. Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Georges Voskovec, Rupert Davies, Cyril Cusack, Peter van Eyck, Michael Hordern, Robert Hardy and Bernard Lee.

In this article: Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre, Hud, Oswald Morris, Peter van Eyck, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner

Richard Burton, left, and Oskar Werner in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965), directed by Martin Ritt. 20th Century Fox Paul Winfield plays a sharecropper in Sounder (1972). By coincidence, two Martin Ritt films are being...

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...No. 1 for months and months and months. It so happened that it was also the most filmable book Le Carre would ever write, and Martin Ritt quickly turned around a sensational adaptation. Alas, we're late on what is still the best feature...

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