Irving Ravetch
Stanley & Iris
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.
Murphy's Romance
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
Norma Rae
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.
The Spikes Gang
After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. They meet an old man named Spikes with the experience only a master gunfighter can offer. The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a price on their heads.
Conrack
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.
The Cowboys
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster.
The Reivers
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
House of Cards
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
Hombre
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.
Hud
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.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman after the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet.
Home from the Hill
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
The Sound and the Fury
1959 adaptation of the Faulkner novel, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Jack Warden, Ethel Waters, Sturt Whitman.
The Long, Hot Summer
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Ten Wanted Men
After Wick Campbell's ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, the embittered, jealous rancher hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
Run for Cover
Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber.
The Lone Hand
Western starring Joel McCrea as a law enforcement officer who goes undercover and pretends to be an outlaw.