Midnight Cowboy [videorecording - DVD]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: USA : MGM Home Entertainment, 1998Description: 1 disc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Directed by John Schlesinger ; Written by Waldo Salt (screenplay) and James Leo Herlihy (novel)
Awards:
  • Winner of The Academy Award for best picture, Best Director and best Screenplay ; Nominated perfomances by Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and Sylvia Miles
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and Sylvia MilesAbstract: Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real hustler, he finds that he is the one getting hustled until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend
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Directed by John Schlesinger ; Written by Waldo Salt (screenplay) and James Leo Herlihy (novel)

Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and Sylvia Miles

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real hustler, he finds that he is the one getting hustled until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend

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Winner of The Academy Award for best picture, Best Director and best Screenplay ; Nominated perfomances by Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and Sylvia Miles

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