Word: ritt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening shot of the sun on the horizon is reminiscent of John Ford and the parallels do not stop there. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) and writer Walter Bernstein are as successful as Ford in exploring and defining Irish tradition and character. A comparison with The Informer is also illuminating: the informer in Ford's film is primitive and worthy of pity: the informer in The Molly Maguires is a conscious human being and deserves our contempt...