Other Literary Forms
(Critical Edition of Dramatic Literature)
Ronald Ribman has worked extensively as a screenwriter, both for film and for television. Among those scripts that have been produced are The Final War of Olly Winter, an original television play produced by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1967; The Angel Levine, a screenplay written with William Gunn and based on a story by Bernard Malamud, produced by United Artists in 1970; and Seize the Day, a teleplay based on the novel by Saul Bellow, produced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1987. Three of Ribman’s stage plays have also been adapted for television: The Journey of the Fifth Horse for NET in 1966 and for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1969, The Ceremony of Innocence for NET in 1972 and for Granada Television in London in 1974, and Cold Storage for the Entertainment Channel in 1983.