Movies with Ruth White

Midnight Cowboy

Genres: Drama

Starring: Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White

Directors: John Schlesinger

Country: USA

Year: 1969

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.

Up the Down Staircase

Genres: Drama

Starring: Eileen Heckart, Roy Poole, Jean Stapleton, Sandy Dennis, Florence Stanley, Ruth White, Sorrell Booke

Directors: Robert Mulligan

Country: USA

Year: 1967

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mo...

Hang 'Em High

Genres: Crime, Western

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Pat Hingle, James Westerfield, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson

Directors: Ted Post

Country: USA

Year: 1968

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Genres: Crime, Drama

Starring: Robert Duvall, William Windom, Crahan Denton, Rosemary Murphy, Paul Fix, Gregory Peck, James Anderson

Directors: Robert Mulligan

Country: USA

Year: 1962

Through the eyes of "Scout," a feisty six-year-old tomboy, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Presenting her tale first as a sweetly lulling reminiscence of events from her childhood, the narrator draws us near with stories of daring neighborhood exploits by she, her brother "Jem," and their friend "Dill." Peopled with a cast of eccentrics, Maycomb ("a tired and sleepy town") finds itself the venue of the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping an ignorant white woman. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem's widowed father and a deeply principled man, ...