Hud
The man with the barbed-wire soul.
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2017
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal & Brandon De Wilde | |
Performer: | Whit Bissell, John Ashley, Crahan Denton, Val Avery, Yvette Vickers & Sheldon Allman | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | Frank Bracht | |
Screenplay by | Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr. | |
Original story by | Larry McMurtry | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira & Tambi Larsen | |
Produced by | Martin Ritt & Irving Ravetch | |
Director of Photography: | James Wong Howe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Actress: Patricia Neal
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Cinematography: James Wong Howe
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A blistering adult western which broke ground in its depiction of an unglamorous West and in the decidedly anti-heroic nature of its lead.
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TV Guide
One of Ritt's best films.
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Time Out
The uncompromising realism is mostly in the veteran James Wong Howe's photography... The rest is pretty much the old salad, with sincere dressing.
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Esquire Magazine
Where it falls short of the mark is in its failure to filter its meaning and theme lucidly through its characters and story.
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Variety
Honesty in the observation of human character shines throughout this contemporary western in which Paul Newman plays a hustler without any visible pangs of conscience.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: A- --
These questions are richer than they might have been in Hud because Newman...creates Hud as a sum of conscious choices, not an animal or an icon.
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Nick's Flick Picks
Paul Newman, all Texan swagger and mesmerising Marlboro sneers, completely redefines the concept of 'iconic'...
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Product Description:
Martin Ritt's HUD is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel HORSEMAN, PASS BY, successfully transformed into an entertaining and ambitious contemporary Western. Set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle, and transistor radios coexist uneasily, the film stars Paul Newman as the hedonistic, arrogant, and rebellious farmhand Hud Bannon. Hud is constantly at odds with his kind father Homer (Melvyn Douglas), who blames him for the death of his brother. Hud further strains their relationship when he begins taking his nephew out drinking and chasing women. But when it appears that Homer's herd of cattle may have contracted hoof-and-mouth disease, he asks his son's help and advice. Predictably, Homer and Hud disagree about what should be done with the cattle, so Hud tries to gain ownership of the ranch--which could mean taking away his father's sole possession and livelihood. Beautifully photographed, the film has a clean visual style, emphasizing both the open spaces of the Texan landscape and the Cadillacs and Dr. Pepper signs that adorn it. Patricia Neal won an oscar for her role, and Newman's performance gives the film its wit and considerable velocity; his character, Hud, is morally reprehensible but still likeable and charismatic, and he carries the film forward to its surprising and poignant ending.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 125,600
- UPC: 032429285447
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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