Screenwriter Irving Ravetch has passed away at 89. He wrote a number of excellent 50s Westerns: The Outriders (1950), Vengeance Valley (1951), The Lone Hand (1953) and Ten Wanted Men (1955).
Ravetch later collaborated with his wife, Harriet Frank, Jr. (that’s them to the right) on screenplays for pictures such as Hud (1963), Hombre (1967), The Reivers (1969), The Cowboys (1972) and The Spikes Gang (1974). The happy couple received Oscar nominations for Hud and Norma Rae (1979).
