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Hud [videorecording] / a Paramount release ; a Salem-Dover production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; produced by Martin Ritt and Irving Ravetch ; directed by Martin Ritt.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 06630 | Paramount Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Summary language: English, French Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2003]Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0792194152
Uniform titles:
  • Hud (Motion picture).
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, James Wong Howe ; editor, Frank Bracht ; music, Elmer Bernstein ; costumes, Edith Head.
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Brandon de Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton.Summary: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon (Newman) is a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted creature; his father, who holds Hud responsible for the death of his other son, tries to imbue Lon with a sense of decency and responsibility to others, but Lon is devoted to Hud and isn't inclined to listen. When hoof and mouth disease shows up in one of the elder Bannon's cows, Hud is all for selling the herd before the government inspectors find out. But Homer orders the cattle destroyed (the film's most harrowing sequence), driving an even deeper wedge between himself and Hud. Finally, Hud steps over the line by attempting to rape Alma (Patricia Neal), the earthy but warm-hearted housekeeper. Paul Newman was so repellantly brilliant as an unregenerate heel that his Oscar nomination for Hud was a foregone conclusion. Although Newman lost the Oscar to Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field, Oscars did go to Neal for Best Actress, Douglas for Best Supporting Actor, and cinematographer James Wong Howe. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Based on the novel Horseman pass by, by Larry McMurtry.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.

Director of photography, James Wong Howe ; editor, Frank Bracht ; music, Elmer Bernstein ; costumes, Edith Head.

Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Brandon de Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton.

Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.

MPAA rating: not rated.

DVD.

English (5.1 surround and restored English mono) and French (mono) language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English and French; closed-captioned in English.

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