Martin Ritt was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre, and television. He was known mainly as an auteur of socially-conscious dramas and literary adaptations, described by
Ritt in 1965
Poster for Power, a Living Newspaper play for the Federal Theatre Project (1937)
The May 7, 1948, issue of the Counterattack newsletter
Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong. The story concerns an African-American sharecropper family in