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Hud is a 1963 American Western film starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal. Directed by Martin Ritt , it was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures .
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Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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- Drama, Western
- Martin Ritt
- 1963-05-29
Based on Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By, Hud (1963) is a contemporary Western in the same way that films like The Misfits (1961) and Lonely Are the Brave (1962) place the genre in a twentieth-century context.
- Martin Ritt, C. C. Coleman Jr.
- Paul Newman
Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) lives a self-centered, indolent life supported by his hard-working and morally upstanding father, Homer (Melvyn Douglas), on the...
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- Paul Newman
- Martin Ritt
- Drama
Hud 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” is a wrenching tragedy — showing the slow, self-actualised death of the West. And nowhere in the film is that more evident than in the bravado of Paul Newman’s title character. A man with spirit to spare who intentionally kills it day after day inside himself.
Hud is a 1963 American Drama Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures.
