Martin Ritt – Page 2 – Scripts on Screen

Stanley & Iris Script

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.

Stanley & Iris Script Resources:

Stanley & Iris Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Stanley & Iris Script PDF - 10/18/88 REVISED at Script City ($)
Stanley & Iris Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Sounder

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.

Sounder Script Resources:

Sounder Script PDF at The Script Savant
Sounder Script at Screenplays For You
Sounder Script at aellea.com
Sounder Script PDF - 7/29/1971 at Script City ($)
Sounder Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Norma Rae

Year:1979

Director:Martin Ritt

Written by:Irving Ravetch (Screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Norma Rae Script Resources:

Norma Rae Script PDF at Script Slug
Norma Rae Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Norma Rae Script PDF - 3/13/78 REVISED at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.