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7.2Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
Cast
- Paul Newman as Hud Bannon
- Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon
- Patricia Neal as Alma Brown
- Brandon De Wilde as Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
- Whit Bissell as Mr. Burris
- Crahan Denton as Jesse
Themes
- based on novel or book
- rodeo
- texas
- ranch
- alcoholism
- rebellious youth
- housekeeper
- neo-western
- hero worship
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
25,020 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
62/100
- Year
- 1963
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama, Western
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 17 wins & 17 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Martin Ritt
- Screenplay by
- Irving Ravetch , Harriet Frank Jr.
- Based on
- Horseman, Pass By , (1961 novel), by Larry McMurtry
- Produced by
- Irving Ravetch, Martin Ritt
- Starring
- Paul Newman , Melvyn Douglas , Patricia Neal , Brandon deWilde
- Cinematography
- James Wong Howe
- Edited by
- Frank Bracht
- Music by
- Elmer Bernstein
- Production company
- Salem-Dover Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- May 29, 1963 ( 1963-05-29 )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $2,400,000
- Box office
- $10 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 112
- FilmAffinity ID
- 695727
- Image
- Paul Newman as Hud.png
Show 6 more facts
- publication date
- 1963-08-02
- title
- Hud
- Commons category
- Hud (film)
- review score
- 86%
- capital cost
- 2350000
- box office
- 10000000
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Hud is a 1963 American contemporary Western film directed and produced by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal. It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures. Its screenplay was by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. and was based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel, Horseman, Pass By. The film's title character, Hud Bannon, was a minor character in the original screenplay, but was reworked as the lead role. With its main character an antihero, Hud was later described as a revisionist Western.
The film was shot on location on the Texas Panhandle, including Claude, Texas. Its story centers on the ongoing conflict between principled patriarch Homer Bannon (Douglas) and his unscrupulous and arrogant son, Hud (Newman), during an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which puts the family's cattle ranch at risk. Lonnie (deWilde), Homer's grandson and Hud's nephew, is caught in the conflict and forced to choose which character to follow.