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

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

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