Edge of the City

Martin Ritt

(New York, 1914 – Santa Monica, 1990), American director, film producer, and playwright, linked his name to Hollywood cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, in a phase halfway between the decline of the Studio System and the birth of New Hollywood, interpreting the tensions of his time and remaining faithful to the methods of classic cinema. He worked with the greatest actors (and others) of his generation, from Orson Welles to Paul Newman (both in The Long, Hot Summer), from Sidney Poitier to John Cassavetes (together in Edge of the City), and then with the faces of the new American cinema, Woody Allen (The Front), Sally Field (Norma Rae, Oscar for Best Actress), Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda, a splendid mature couple in Stanley & Iris, her last film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Edge of the City (Nel fango della periferia, 1957), No Down Payment (Un urlo nella notte, 1957), The Black Orchid (Orchidea nera, 1958), The Long, Hot Summer (La lunga estate calda, 1958), The Sound and the Fury (L’urlo e la furia, 1959), 5 Branded Women (Jovanka e le altre, 1960), Paris Blues (1961), Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (Le avventure di un giovane, 1962), Hud (Hud il selvaggio, 1963), The Outrage (L’oltraggio, 1964), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (La spia che venne dal freddo, 1965), Hombre (1967), The Brotherhood (La fratellanza, 1968), The Molly Maguires (I cospiratori, 1970), The Great White Hope (Per salire più in basso, 1970), Sounder (1972), Pete ‘n’ Tillie (Un marito per Tillie, 1972), Conrack (1974), Der Richter und sein Henker (Assassinio sul ponte, 1975, attore), The Front (Il prestanome, 1976), Casey’s Shadow (Ultimo handicap, 1978), Norma Rae (1979), Back Roads (1981), Cross Creek (La foresta silenziosa, 1983), Murphy’s Romance (L’amore di Murphy, 1985), Nuts (Pazza, 1987), Stanley & Iris (Lettere d’amore, 1990).