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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 .
With Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde. 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.
- (24K)
- Drama, Western
- Martin Ritt
- 1963-05-29
Jun 27, 2022 · In-your-face study of Hud, an extremely wounded man who shows up in the world as an utter terror to all around him. He ranches with his father Melvyn Douglas and teen nephew Brandon De Wilde...
- 126 min
- 16.4K
- crucial classics movie reactions
Hud (1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
Synopsis. Hud opens on a wide open Texas landscape, which turns to a highway while spare and lovely guitar music plays. We then meet Lon (Brandon De Wilde) an impressionable teenager catching a ride into town to retrieve his Uncle Hud.
Hud. 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.
