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Martin Ritt Movies

Want to know the best Martin Ritt movies?  How about the worst Martin Ritt movies?  Curious about Martin Ritt box office grosses or which Martin Ritt movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Martin Ritt movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

Martin Ritt (1914-1990) was an Oscar® nominated American director, producer and actor.  Ritt found success on the stage and on the big screen.   His IMDb page shows over 50 assorted credits from 1944 to 1990. This page will rank Martin Ritt movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.

Martin Ritt Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1963 Hud (1963)
AA Best Director Nom
1972 Sounder (1972)
AA Best Picture Nom
Director
1958 The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Director
1979 Norma Rae (1979)
AA Best Picture Nom
Director
1967 Hombre (1967)
Director
1944 Winged Victory (1944)
1972 Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
Director
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Director
1985 Murphy's Romance (1985)
Director
1976 The Front (1976)
Director
1970 The Great White Hope (1970)
Director
1957 No Down Payment (1957)
Director
1957 Edge of the City (1957)
Director
1959 The Sound And The Fury (1959)
Director
1974 Conrack (1974)
Director
1987 Nuts (1987)
Director
1978 Casey's Shadow (1978)
Director
1961 Paris Blues (1961)
Director
1970 The Molly Maguires (1970)
Director
1960 5 Branded Women (1960)
Director
1968 The Brotherhood (1968)
Director
1983 Cross Creek (1983)
Director
1964 The Outrage (1964)
Director
1962 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Director
1981 Back Roads (1981)
Director
1975 End of the Game (1975)
1958 The Black Orchid (1958)
Director
1990 Stanley & Iris (1990)
Director
1985 The Slugger's Wife (1985)

Martin Ritt Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Martin Ritt movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Martin Ritt movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Martin Ritt movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Martin Ritt movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Martin Ritt movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Martin Ritt movie won.
  • Sort Martin Ritt movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1 Hud (1963)
AA Best Director Nom
Paul Newman &
Melvyn Douglas
14.30 207.6 207.60 18 79 07 / 03 98.7
2 Sounder (1972)
AA Best Picture Nom
Director
Cicely Tyson &
Paul Winfield
26.50 194.5 194.50 12 79 04 / 00 98.4
3 The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Director
Paul Newman &
Joanne Woodward
10.00 208.3 208.30 14 79 00 / 00 97.0
4 Norma Rae (1979)
AA Best Picture Nom
Director
Sally Field &
Beau Bridges
30.00 149.6 149.60 30 76 04 / 02 95.3
6 Hombre (1967)
Director
Paul Newman &
Fredric March
14.00 144.9 144.90 20 83 00 / 00 93.2
5 Winged Victory (1944) Jeanne Crain &
Directed by George Cukor
9.70 378.0 378.00 17 65 00 / 00 92.8
7 Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
Director
Walter Matthau &
Carol Burnett
24.50 180.5 180.50 14 67 02 / 00 92.0
8 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Director
Richard Burton &
Oskar Werner &
Claire Bloom
9.70 119.2 119.20 27 77 02 / 00 88.6
9 Murphy's Romance (1985)
Director
Sally Field &
James Garner
30.90 108.7 108.70 28 77 02 / 00 87.3
10 The Front (1976)
Director
Woody Allen &
Zero Mostel
15.10 88.8 88.80 44 74 01 / 00 83.5
11 The Great White Hope (1970)
Director
James Earl Jones &
Jane Alexander
8.50 68.4 68.40 38 66 02 / 00 75.6
12 No Down Payment (1957)
Director
Joanne Woodward &
Tony Randall
3.40 76.5 76.50 73 64 00 / 00 74.2
13 Edge of the City (1957)
Director
John Cassavetes &
Sidney Poitier
2.20 49.7 49.70 108 71 00 / 00 73.2
15 The Sound And The Fury (1959)
Director
Yul Brynner &
Joanne Woodward
4.90 101.2 101.20 51 54 00 / 00 72.6
14 Conrack (1974)
Director
Jon Voight &
Paul Winfield
6.10 40.5 40.50 60 73 00 / 00 72.0
18 Nuts (1987)
Director
Barbra Streisand &
Richard Dreyfuss
31.00 98.9 98.90 38 52 00 / 00 68.7
16 Casey's Shadow (1978)
Director
Walter Matthau &
Alexis Smith
9.60 51.0 51.00 61 66 00 / 00 68.6
17 Paris Blues (1961)
Director
Paul Newman &
Joanne Woodward
3.10 53.1 53.10 71 64 01 / 00 67.9
19 The Molly Maguires (1970)
Director
Sean Connery &
Richard Harris
2.40 19.5 19.50 98 71 01 / 00 63.7
21 5 Branded Women (1960)
Director
Van Heflin &
Vera Miles
2.90 51.8 51.80 77 59 00 / 00 59.1
20 The Brotherhood (1968)
Director
Kirk Douglas &
Alex Cord
2.40 23.2 23.20 108 68 00 / 00 59.0
22 Cross Creek (1983)
Director
Mary Steenburgen &
Rip Torn
0.20 0.8 0.80 150 70 04 / 00 56.0
23 The Outrage (1964)
Director
Paul Newman &
Laurence Harvey
4.60 60.8 60.80 64 52 00 / 00 52.1
24 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Director
Paul Newman &
Diane Baker
2.70 45.2 45.20 88 56 00 / 00 50.2
25 Back Roads (1981)
Director
Sally Field &
Tommy Lee Jones
11.80 53.1 53.10 68 51 00 / 00 46.3
26 End of the Game (1975) Jon Voight &
Jacqueline Bisset
2.30 13.9 13.90 111 61 00 / 00 40.7
27 The Black Orchid (1958)
Director
Sophia Loren &
Anthony Quinn
2.90 59.5 59.50 77 43 00 / 00 33.3
28 Stanley & Iris (1990)
Director
Jane Fonda &
Robert DeNiro
5.80 17.2 17.20 113 45 00 / 00 13.2
29 The Slugger's Wife (1985) Baseball Movies &
Michael O'Keefe
1.90 6.6 6.60 145 26 00 / 00 0.6

Martin Ritt Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
 

Check out Martin Ritt’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time

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  1. Cogerson says:
    February 1, 2025 at 9:41 am

    Somewhat shocked that we did not already have a Martin Ritt page. If you would have asked me if he had an UMR page I would have sworn he got one years ago. I have seen 11 of these movies…a little less than I would have guessed. Favorites would include Murphy’s Romance and his 2 Paul Newman classics Hud and Hombre. FYI – just watched Pete and Tillie last night. It was a big “it’s ok”. Not sure I bought the happy ending after Matthau spent the whole movie being a jerk to Carol Burnett.

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