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Martin Ritt, who died Dec. 8 at 76, was a once-blacklisted director who liked to tackle issues of social justice. The results were sometimes preachy, but at their frequent best, his vivid films were enlivened by a powerful narrative hand and a sensitive way with actors. Ritt's 26 movies-many of which are available on videocassette-are his legacy: Edge of the City (1957); No Down Payment (1957); The Long Hot Summer (1958); The Black Orchid (1959); The Sound and the Fury (1959); Five Branded Women (1960); Paris Blues (1961); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Hud (1963); Outrage (1964); The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965); Hombre (1967); The Brotherhood (1968); The Molly Maguires (1969); The Great White Hope (1970); Sounder (1972); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Conrack (1974); The Front (1976); Casey's Shadow (1978); Norma Rae (1979); Backroads (1981); Cross Creek (1983); Murphy's Romance (1985); Nuts (1987); Stanley & Iris (1990).
