Tag: Martin Ritt

Cross Creek Script

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Year:1983
Director:Martin Ritt

Script Synopsis:The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Script

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Year:1965
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:John le Carré (Novel), Paul Dehn (Screenplay), Guy Trosper (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Script Resources:

  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Script PDF - 12/2/62 REVISED DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Transcript at scripts.com

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  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( tt0059749 ) at IMDb
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( 13580 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Long Hot Summer Script

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Year:1958
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:William Faulkner (Writer), Irving Ravetch (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family
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Hud Script

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Year:1963
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Larry McMurtry (Novel), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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Hombre Script

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Year:1967
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer)

Script Synopsis:John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Conrack Script

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Year:1974
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Pat Conroy (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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The Front Script

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Year:1976
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Walter Bernstein (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
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Murphy’s Romance Script

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Year:1985
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Max Schott (Story)

Script Synopsis:Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.
Murphy's Romance Script Resources:

  • Murphy's Romance Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Murphy's Romance Script PDF - 12/6/84 FINAL REVISED at Script City ($)

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Stanley & Iris Script

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Year:1990
Director:Martin Ritt

Script Synopsis:An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
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Sounder

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Year:1972
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Lonne Elder III (Screenplay), William H. Armstrong (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers 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 oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
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