Frank, Harriet

Overview

Works:	102 works in 299 publications in 6 languages and 9,251 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Fiction Motion picture plays History Biography Western films Interviews Case studies
Roles:	Author of screenplay, Writer of accompanying material, Scenarist, Performer
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1940 |

|2020

Key

Publications about Harriet Frank

Publications by Harriet Frank

Most widely held works by Harriet Frank

Norma Rae by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
21 editions published between 1979 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,705 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

The cowboys by Mark Rydell ( Visual )
21 editions published between 1971 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive

Hud by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
21 editions published between 1962 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 1,243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A drama which portrays the conflicts of a Texas ranch family in which a cynical uncle and a venerable grandfather vie for the respect and admiration of a naive seventeen-year-old boy

William Faulkner's the long, hot summer ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Hombre by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
15 editions published between 1966 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Special effects by Harriet Frank ( Book )
7 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Murphy's romance by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in English and held by 455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In an endearing comic love story set in Arizona, 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

William Faulkner's The Reivers by William Faulkner ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in English and held by 428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a 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

Home from the hill by Vincente Minnelli ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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, determined to be their own men, are in danger of repeating their father's life-crippling legacy of lust and violence

Single : a novel by Harriet Frank ( Book )
10 editions published between 1977 and 1986 in English and held by 298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel about the world of women alone, single by fate and choice, an elegant and literary foray into lives that are given to a search for self, happiness, laughter and sexuality

Conrack by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in English and held by 243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent

Hud ; Norma Rae ; and, The long, hot summer : three screenplays by Irving Ravetch ( Book )
5 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stanley & Iris by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
11 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stanley and Iris are both employees at the same bakery, and find out they have more in common than just their place of work; their trying personal lives. When Stanley loses his job because he can't read, he asks Iris to teach him

Greatest classic films collection ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

The Reivers by Mark Rydell ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1985 and 2011 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Warm, humorous, poignant story about a boy's loss of innocence and a memoir and loving re-creation of turn-of-the-century Dixie

Ten wanted men ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Scott stars as Arizona rancher John Stewart, who is determined to rule his vast empire with strongwilled integrity. Stewart meets opposition, however, from a local landowner who prefers the persuasive power of the pistol to the letter of the law. Suddenly, Stewart is forced to defend himself and the woman he loves against his opponent's renegades who are determined to ransack the town

Norma Rae / Working Girl double feature 2 DVD set ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in French and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Run for cover by Nicolas Ray ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An ex-convict survives a lynch mob and becomes the town's sheriff once word of his gun skills reach the local townsfolk

The Long hot summer by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Ben Quick, suspected barnburner, drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch (Will) who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter

Screenwriters on screenwriting by Ally Acker ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes interviews with screenwriters: Euzhan Palcy, Jay Presson Allen, Harriet Frank, Jr., Fay Kanin and Margarethe Von Trotta along with clips from some of their films