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
Dustin Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Papillon (1973)
The Graduate (1967)
Jon Voight
USA
Best movies:
Heat (1995)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Coming Home (1978)
Sylvia Miles
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Wall Street (1987)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
John McGiver
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Brenda Vaccaro
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
You Don't Know Jack (2010) (TV movie)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Barnard Hughes
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Odd Couple II (1998)
TRON (1982)
Ruth White
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Jennifer Salt
USA
Best movies:
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Blood Sisters (1972)
Bob Balaban
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Paul Morrissey
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rich and Famous (1981)
Taylor Mead
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Brothers Till We Die (1978)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Ultra Violet
France
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Taking Off (1971)
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Philip Bruns
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Taking Off (1971)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Sandy Duncan
USA
Best movies:
Roots (1977) (series)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Marlene Clark
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Lost Flight (1970) (TV movie)
Paul Benjamin
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Station Agent (2003)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Georgann Johnson
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Shoot the Moon (1982)
The Day After (1983) (TV movie)
International Velvet
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Viva
USA
Best movies:
Paris, Texas (1984)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Anthony Holland
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
High Stakes (1989)
All That Jazz (1979)