Dustin Hoffman
Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo
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Midnight Cowboy: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver. A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes.
When Joe Buck (Voight), a good-looking, naively charming Texas 'cowboy' makes his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune, the only wealth he finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams.
May 30, 2024 · Midnight Cowboy, American dramatic film, released in 1969, that depicted the squalid lives and desperate friendship of two broken drifters and became the only X-rated (meaning that only adults could see it) movie to win an Academy Award for best picture (the movie’s rating was later changed to R).
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich...
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Jul 5, 1994 · "Midnight Cowboy" is a good movie with a masterpiece inside, struggling to break free. Advertisement The best thing in the movie is the acting, by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as a simple-minded Texas drifter and a cynical Broadway street operator.
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Midnight Cowboy. 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.
Jun 5, 2021 · Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager.
"Midnight Cowboy" comes heartbreakingly close to being the movie we want it to be. The performances have a flat, painful accuracy. The world of Times Square, a world of people without hope and esteem, seems terribly real. Here is America's underbelly and it even smells that way.
