Directed by:
John SchlesingerScreenplay:
Waldo SaltCinematography:
Adam HolenderComposer:
John BarryCast:
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Bob Balaban, Paul Morrissey, Taylor Mead (more)VOD (2)
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One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference”, Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Randall Carver
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Man on the Moon (1999)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Paul Rossilli
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Bridge Across Time (1985) (TV movie)
Mary Boylan
USA
Best movies:
Annie Hall (1977)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Exorcist (1973)
Richard Clarke
UK
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Joan Murphy
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Band of the Hand (1986)
Thieves and Robbers (1982)
Paul Jabara
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
The Out of Towners (1970)
Pat Ast
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Slow Burn (1986) (TV movie)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
M. Emmet Walsh
USA
Best movies:
Little Big Man (1970)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Serpico (1973)
Arthur Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Zelig (1983)
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (1972)
Al Scott
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982) (TV movie)
Thieves Like Us (1974)