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Hud
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»rank: 837
: :Newman is the materialistic son of a texas rancher who doesnt ride to the occasion when the ranch falls on hard times. Instead he pursues an uninterested neal in this western for modern times and changing morals. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Paul Newman Patricia Neal Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Martin Ritt essential video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he ...
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The Long, Hot Summer
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»rank: 1673
:Description:Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury co-star in this riveting tale of life in the Deep South. Provocative and compelling, it simmers with sexual tension, bawdy humor and a powerful clash of personalities. When Ben Quick (Newman), a suspected barnburner drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will Varner, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch (Welles) who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter (Woodward). But once the loner moves in, the two men lock horns, drawing Varner's family into a complex web of emotions and actions that leaves all of them changed forever. ...
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Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Criterion Collection
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»rank: 3925
: :John Le Carré's acclaimed bestselling novel, about a Cold War spy on one final, dangerous mission, is every bit as precise and ruthless onscreen in this adaptation directed by Martin Ritt. Richard Burton delivers one of his career-defining performances as Alec Leamas, whose hesitant but deeply felt relationship with a beautiful librarian (Claire Bloom) puts what he hopes will be his last assignment, in East Germany, in jeopardy. An intelligent, hard-edged, and even tragic thriller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is etched with realism and suffused with genuine political and personal anxiety.Info Directed by Martin Ritt (Hud, Sounder, Norma ...
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Murphy's Romance
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»rank: 2307
: :A small-town widower attempts to woo an attractive divorcee despite the omnipresence of her similarly inclined ex-husband. Special features: subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai production notes interactive menus talent files theatrical trailers scene selections and more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Sally Field James Garner Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Martin Ritt :Director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae) helmed this offbeat romance that earned costar James Garner an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a widowed druggist who befriends a confused divorcee (Sally Field) and her son, who move to a small rural ...
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Michael Jackson - Video Greatest Hits - HIStory
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»rank: 4374
:Description:This compilation features 10 of Michael Jackson's greatest video hits, including 'Billie Jean,' 'The Way You Make Me Feel,' 'Black or White,' 'Rock With You' and others. 90 minutes.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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»rank: 7227
: :A cynical british spy plays cold war games with an east german spy. From the john le carre novel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Richard Burton Oscar Werner Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Martin Ritt :John le Carre's classic spy yarn gets a suitably brisk, unromanticized telling in this quintessential Cold War movie. A British agent (Richard Burton) sets up an elaborate cover story for being lured into defecting to the Communists, but he hardly needs to manufacture his disgust and cynicism over spying. The grim business of point-counterpoint espionage has rarely been depicted with less glamour; ...
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Cross Creek
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»rank: 4917
: :A cynical british spy plays cold war games with an east german spy. From the john le carre novel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Richard Burton Oscar Werner Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Martin Ritt :John le Carre's classic spy yarn gets a suitably brisk, unromanticized telling in this quintessential Cold War movie. A British agent (Richard Burton) sets up an elaborate cover story for being lured into defecting to the Communists, but he hardly needs to manufacture his disgust and cynicism over spying. The grim business of point-counterpoint espionage has rarely been depicted with less glamour; ...
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Hombre
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»rank: 5399
:Description:John Russell (Paul Newman), a white man raised by a band of Arizona Apaches, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house his father has left him. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride outside with the driver (Martin Balsam). But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival! Diane Cilento, Frederic March, Richard Boone and Barbara Rush co-star in this action-packed Western classic. :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his ...
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Nuts
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»rank: 29427
:Description:A strong-willed woman launches a fierce battle to prove her mental competence to stand trial for manslaughter. :Barbra Streisand is a mad high-priced 'escort' accused of murder, but whether she's mad as hell or mad as a hatter is the question in this courtroom drama, adapted from the play by Tom Topor. While her doting, willfully uncomprehending mother (Maureen Stapleton) and stepdad with a secret (Karl Malden) try to have her judged incompetent and sent to an asylum, she fights for her day in court with the help of a hapless legal aid attorney (a refreshingly understated Richard Dreyfuss). James Whitmore presides over ...
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The Molly Maguires
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»rank: 13940
: :A pennsylvania company plants a spy among an irish coal miners secret society of saboteurs. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Sean Connery Samantha Eggar Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Martin Ritt :An expensive box-office flop when released in 1970, The Molly Maguires can now be appreciated as a compelling drama with potent political undertones. The talent involved is first-rate all the way: In addition to the volatile teaming of Sean Connery and Richard Harris on opposite sides of a Pennsylvania miners' war, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein were at the height of their Hollywood powers, ...
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