Midnight cowboy, United Artists ; a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay, Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger
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Label
Midnight cowboy, United Artists ; a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay, Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Midnight cowboy
Oclc number
1031379937
Responsibility statement
United Artists ; a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay, Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger
Runtime
113
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 925
Summary
"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"--Container
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Balaban, Bob
- Barry, John, 1933-2011
- Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003
- Jerome Hellman Productions
- Salt, Waldo
- White, Ruth, 1914-1969
- Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939-
- Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
- Miles, Sylvia, 1924-2019
- McGiver, John, 1913-1975
- Salt, Jennifer, 1944-
- Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006
- Voight, Jon, 1938-
- Tice, Jan, 1935-2011
- Robertson, Hugh A.
- Holender, Adam
- United Artists Corporation
- Herlihy, James Leo
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Johnson, Georgann
- Hellman, Jerome
Subject
- Male friendship -- Drama
- Swindlers and swindling -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Buddy films
- Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Male prostitutes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Outcasts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
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- Balaban, Bob
- Barry, John, 1933-2011
- Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003
- Jerome Hellman Productions
- Salt, Waldo
- White, Ruth, 1914-1969
- Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939-
- Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
- Miles, Sylvia, 1924-2019
- McGiver, John, 1913-1975
- Salt, Jennifer, 1944-
- Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006
- Voight, Jon, 1938-
- Tice, Jan, 1935-2011
- Robertson, Hugh A.
- Holender, Adam
- United Artists Corporation
- Herlihy, James Leo
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Johnson, Georgann
- Hellman, Jerome
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- Subject9
- Male friendship -- Drama
- Swindlers and swindling -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Buddy films
- Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Male prostitutes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Outcasts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
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