Screenplay: Irving Ravetch
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Home from the Hill
1960 · Movie · 151 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Robert Mitchum · Eleanor Parker · George Peppard · George Hamilton
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Orson Welles · Lee Remick
Plot 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...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Hud
1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Paul Newman · Melvyn Douglas · Patricia Neal · Brandon De Wilde
Plot 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...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Hombre
1967 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Paul Newman · Fredric March · Richard Boone · Diane Cilento
Plot In this film more is said with just one look than in 100 cute one-liners. An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Conrack
1974 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Jon Voight · Paul Winfield · Madge Sinclair · Hume Cronyn
Plot The true story of Pat Conroy, who tried to teach a group of illiterate Black children in South Carolina by using common-sense teaching techniques to inspire their interest. Voight is...
6.8
179 votes
6.8
179 votes
Norma Rae
1979 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Sally Field · Beau Bridges · Ron Leibman · Pat Hingle
Plot Veteran director Martin Ritt directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Run for Cover
1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast James Cagney · Viveca Lindfors · John Derek · Jean Hersholt
Plot Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding...
6.7
691 votes
6.7
691 votes
Stanley & Iris
1989 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Robert De Niro · Jane Fonda · Swoosie Kurtz · Martha Plimpton
Plot Stanley Cox is a shy, illiterate short-order cook who has never taken a chance at love. Iris King is a newly widowed factory worker who has vowed never to love...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
The Cowboys
1972 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Mark Rydell
Cast John Wayne · Roscoe Lee Browne · Bruce Dern · Colleen Dewhurst
Plot When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get...
6.1
811 votes
6.1
811 votes
The Sound and the Fury
1959 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Yul Brynner · Joanne Woodward · Margaret Leighton · Stuart Whitman
Plot The Sound and the Fury doesn't exactly signify nothing, but as a filmization of William Faulkner it could have been far better. Yul Brynner is the oldest son of a...
6.0
196 votes
6.0
196 votes
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury
Plot In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is...
5.9
41 votes
5.9
41 votes
The Reivers
1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Mark Rydell
Cast Steve McQueen · Rupert Crosse · Mitch Vogel · Sharon Farrell
Plot An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first...
5.8
266 votes
5.8
266 votes
The Lone Hand
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Joel McCrea · Barbara Hale · Jimmy Hunt · Alex Nicol
5.7
121 votes
5.7
121 votes
Vengeance Valley
1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Walker · Joanne Dru · Ray Collins
Plot An honest rancher tries to block his evil brother''s plots while keeping them from their father.
5.7
748 votes
5.7
748 votes
The Spikes Gang
1974 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Lee Marvin · Gary Grimes · Ron Howard · Charles Martin Smith
Plot Three boys wanted to be like their hero. Harry Spikes. They got their wish. Soon they were worth a fortune. DEAD or ALIVE.
5.6
286 votes
5.6
286 votes
Murphy's Romance
1985 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Sally Field · James Garner · Brian Kerwin · Dennis Burkley
Plot Emma (Sally Field) 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 (James...
5.6
265 votes
5.6
265 votes
The Outriders
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Joel McCrea · Arlene Dahl · Barry Sullivan · Claude Jarman Jr.
Plot Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act...
5.4
105 votes
5.4
105 votes
Living in a Big Way
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Gene Kelly · Marie McDonald · Charles Winninger · Phyllis Thaxter
Plot Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not...
5.4
32 votes
5.4
32 votes
Ten Wanted Men
1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Randolph Scott · Jocelyn Brando · Richard Boone · Alfonso Bedoya
Plot Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John Stewart, who attempts to establish law and order...
5.1
183 votes
5.1
183 votes