Martin Ritt
1) Hud
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic revisionist western explores complex familial relationships as well as the pitfalls of modern capitalism by following the daily life of Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Though Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted man, he was celebrated as an iconic anti-hero to the countercultural youth audiences of the 1960s. Winner...
2) Norma Rae
Publisher
CBS Fox Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grinding out her life in a small southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the southern mill.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent. .
4) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns home.
5) Cross creek
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, frustrated newspaper reporter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband and career and moves to an isolated orange grove in the Florida bayou to concentrate on writing fiction.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
7) Hombre
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A white man raised by an Arizona Apache tribe is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house he inherits.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
10) Cross Creek
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, frustrated newspaper reporter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband and career and moves to an isolated orange grove in the Florida bayou to concentrate on writing fiction. But here is this strange and untamed land, Marjorie will find her life changed forever by a devoted servant who becomes her friend, a local businessman who becomes her lover and the backwoods father and his young daughter who become her greatest inspiration....