Irving Ravetch
1) Norma Rae
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Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.
2) The cowboys
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When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
3) Hud
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Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
4) Hombre
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"John Russell, 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. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride with the driver. But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival"--Container.
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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.
6) Hud
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Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon (Newman) is a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Hud is an amoral,...
7) The Reivers
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Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.
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Wade Hunnicutt is a big man who looms over the Texas backwoodsmen who work his land, over the embittered wife that he cheats on, and over the sons who strive for their father's respect. An emotionally volatile tale of an epic clash between generations. Wade's sons, determinded to be their own men, are in danger of repeating their father's life-crippling legacy of lust and violence.
10) Boot Hill
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In Boot Hill, a wealthy town boss causes trouble and two brothers have no choice but to meet the challenge with guns blazing. In Vengeance Valley, hardworking Owen is framed by his jealous brother for a crime he didn't commit.
11) Vengeance valley
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Owen Daybright is the adopted son of rancher Arch Strobie and the foster brother of Lee Strobie. The virtuous Owen has spent his life covering up the devious actions of his brother, but Lee wants Owen out of the way so he can become sole heir to the ranch.
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Here are thirteen of Paul Newman's best films. This DVD tribute collection is accompanied by a book that traces the story of Newman's ascent in Hollywood, and includes a stunning array of photos, recollections of the making of each film, synopsis of the films, movie posters, and the legal and technical information on each of the thirteen films.
14) Murphy's romance
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Emma is a divorced woman with a teenage son who moves to a small town to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist that steers business her way. Things are going fine until her ex-husband shows up needing a place to stay.
15) Run for cover
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An ex-convict survives a lynch mob and becomes the town's sheriff once word of his gun skills reach the local townsfolk.
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In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
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Murphy's romance: In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband. Places in the heart: It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending...
18) The outriders
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"Folks headed from Santa Fe to St. Louis by wagon train trust the riders escorting them, tough hombres who proved their mettle by fighting off an Indian attack. Yet the riders are wolves in sheep's clothing. They're Confederate soldiers who aim to lead the wagon train and its cargo of Union gold into a Rebel ambush. The Outriders is about that journey and of one man's journey from villain to hero -- the Johnny Reb whose change of heart is inspired...
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Out of the past: Former private detective Jeff Bailey is trying to lead a quiet life, but his past comes back to haunt him and he finds himself framed for murder.
Angel face: When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur, but he begins to suspect danger...
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Fort Apache: a cavalry officer's by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
The searchers: a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
Rio Bravo: a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
The cowboys: a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold...