MIDNIGHTCOWBOY (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Gilman Rankin, Gary Owens, T. Tom Marlow, George Eppersen, Al Scott, Linda Davis, J.T. Masters, Arlene Reeder, Georgann Johnson, Jonathan Kramer, Anthony Holland, Bob Balaban, Jan Tice, Paul Benjamin, Peter Scalia, Vito Siracusa, Peter Zamagias, Arthur Anderson, Tina Scala, Alma Felix, Richard Clarke, Ann Thomas, Paul Rossilli, Viva, Ultra Violet, Paul Jabara, International Velvet, Cecelia Lipson, Taylor Mead, Paul Morrissey, Joan Murphy, Al Stetson, Lucian Addario, Pat Ast, Bernice, Mary Boylan, Philip Bruns, Randall Carver, Marlene Clark, Robert Dahdah, William Door, Sandy Duncan, Trent Gough, Paul Jasmin, Barbara Maggio, Jay Morran, Waldo Salt, Renee Semes, Larry Sherman, Jeffrey Walker, M. Emmet Walsh, Bill Walters, John Schlesinger, James Leo Herlihy
• Director: John Schlesinger
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists (UA)
• Media Format: Movie