Frank, Harriet

Norma Rae by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
19 editions published between 1979 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,654 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 )
20 editions published between 1971 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,506 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 )
17 editions published between 1962 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 1,242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high

William Faulkner's the long, hot summer ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 746 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 )
11 editions published between 1966 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society

Special effects by Harriet Frank ( Book )
6 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Faulkner's The Reivers by Mark Rydell ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in English and French and held by 476 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

Murphy's romance by Martin Ritt ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in English and held by 454 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

Single : a novel by Harriet Frank ( Book )
10 editions published between 1977 and 1986 in English and held by 317 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

Home from the hill ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 293 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