Frank, Harriet Jr

Overview

Works:	148 works in 524 publications in 8 languages and 10,590 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Western films Fiction Melodrama Action and adventure films Comedy films Road films Romantic comedy films Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Roles:	Author of screenplay, Author, Scenarist, Writer of accompanying material, Conceptor, Producer, Other, Performer
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Harriet Frank

Filmmakers on film. pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present( Visual )
Filmmakers on film( Visual )
Screenwriters on screenwriting by Ally Acker( Visual )

Most widely held works by Harriet Frank

Norma Rae by Martin Ritt( Visual )

48 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 1,899 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( Visual )

22 editions published between 1972 and 2016 in 5 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 )

35 editions published between 1962 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,305 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 )

4 editions published between 2003 and 2017 in English and Dakota and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paul Newman stars as a crafty drifter in Mississippi who drops like a bomb into the wealthy Varner family, already a stewpot of lust, rivalry, and dysfunction. Orson Welles is the manipulative paterfamilias; Joanne Woodward his intelligent, wary daughter; Anthony Franciosa his weakling son; Angela Lansbury his long-suffering mistress; and Lee Remick his sexed-up daughter-in-law

Hombre by Martin Ritt( Visual )

17 editions published between 1967 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A white man raised by Apaches discovers he has inherited some property. Setting out to claim it, he is initially shunned by his fellow stagecoach passengers, but their attitude changes when the coach is attacked by a viscious gang of outlaws

Murphy's romance by Martin Ritt( Visual )

11 editions published between 1986 and 2017 in English and held by 510 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

The Reivers by Mark Rydell( Visual )

14 editions published between 1969 and 2015 in English and French and held by 485 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

Special effects by Harriet Frank( Book )

9 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Home from the hill by Vincente Minnelli( Visual )

18 editions published between 1959 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 368 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 )

17 editions published between 1977 and 1986 in 3 languages and held by 280 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

Greatest classic films collection( Visual )

5 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 221 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

Hud ; Norma Rae ; and, the long, hot summer : three screenplays by Irving Ravetch( Book )

5 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Conrack by Martin Ritt( Visual )

14 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in English and held by 202 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

Stanley & Iris by Martin Ritt( Visual )

15 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 183 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

The cowboys by Mark Rydell( Visual )

23 editions published between 1971 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 93 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Deserted by his regular help, a rancher is forced to use eleven young boys to help drive his cattle across four hundred miles of western country, and turns them into men while doing it

Ten wanted men( Visual )

2 editions published between 2005 and 2019 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Randolph Scott (The Tall T) rides tall in the saddle as a powerful cattle rancher in this action-packed western. Scott stars as John Stewart, an Arizona rancher determined to rule his vast empire with strong-willed integrity. Stewart meets with opposition, however, from local landowner Wick Campbell (Richard Boone, Have Gun, Will Travel) 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 (Jocelyn Brando, The Big Heat) against Campbell's renegades who are determined to ransack the town. Now Stewart must take a life-and-death stand in a rugged confrontation that pits one man of justice against the overwhelming odds of Ten Wanted Men

Run for cover by Nicholas Ray( Visual )

7 editions published between 2012 and 2019 in English and held by 71 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

William Faulkner's The reivers by William Faulkner( Visual )

4 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in English and held by 66 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

Norma Rae / Working Girl double feature : 2 DVD set( Visual )

1 edition published in 2006 in French and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Working Girl (Melanie Griffith), a bright Wall Street secretary, rises to a professional position by posing as her classy but treacherous boss. Working girl originally released in 1988, by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

The date night 4-movie collection : Murphy's romance ; Places in the heart ; Steel magnolias ; My best friend's wedding( Visual )

1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Murphy's romance: In an endearing comic love story, 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. Places in the heart: It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships. Steel magnolias: A hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M'Lynn (Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fears of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life. My best friend's wedding: Commitment-shy Jules Potter has four days to steal back her best friend Michael before he marries someone else