Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 113'
Tall, blond and naïve, he travels from Texas to New York to get rich as a gigolo. But the city demolishes him and he ends up doing tricks in the slums with homosexuals. He makes a friend, a penniless consumptive who dreams of going to Florida. From Free Cinema, Schlesinger lands in the USA and immediately captures the collapse of the “Dream” with a bitter urban fairytale that won three Oscars. With Jon Voight playing the hick and an immense Dustin Hoffman as the consumptive.
Biography
film director
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (Londra/London, Regno Unito/UK, 1926 - Palm Springs, CA, Usa, 2003).
FILMOGRAFIA
A Kind of Loving (Una maniera d’amare, 1962), Billy Liar (Billy il bugiardo, 1963), Darling (id., 1965), Far From the Madding Crowd (Via dalla pazza folla, 1967), Midnight Cowboy (Un uomo da marciapiede, 1969), Sunday Bloody Sunday (Domenica maledetta domenica, 1971), The Day of the Locust (Il giorno della lucusta, 1975), Marathon Man (Il maratoneta, 1976), Yanks (Yankees, 1979), Honky Tonk Freeway (Crazy runners - Quei pazzi pazzi sulle autostrade, 1981), The Falcon and the Snowman (Il gioco del falco, 1985), The Believers (The Believers - I credenti del male, 1987), Madame Sousatzka (id., 1988), Pacific Heights (Uno sconosciuto alla porta, 1990), The Innocent (id., 1993), Cold Comfort Farm (id., tv ,1995).
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
John Schlesinger
SOGGETTO
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by James Leo Herlihy
SCENEGGIATURA
Waldo Salt
FOTOGRAFIA
Adam Holender
MONTAGGIO
Hugh A. Robertson
SCENOGRAFIA
John Robert Lloyd
MUSICA
John Barry (non accreditato/uncredited)
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Dustin Hoffman (Ratso), Jon Voight (Joe Buck), Sylvia Miles (Cass), John McGiver (Mr O’Daniel), Brenda Vaccaro (Shirley)
PRODUTTORE
Jerome Hellman
John Schlesinger
SOGGETTO
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by James Leo Herlihy
SCENEGGIATURA
Waldo Salt
FOTOGRAFIA
Adam Holender
MONTAGGIO
Hugh A. Robertson
SCENOGRAFIA
John Robert Lloyd
MUSICA
John Barry (non accreditato/uncredited)
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Dustin Hoffman (Ratso), Jon Voight (Joe Buck), Sylvia Miles (Cass), John McGiver (Mr O’Daniel), Brenda Vaccaro (Shirley)
PRODUTTORE
Jerome Hellman