Country: USA
Year: 1963
Duration: 112'
Hud, the son of a ranch owner in Texas, spends his days drinking, womanizing, and in general avoiding any form of responsibility. He is in constant conflict with his father Homer, who considers him his greatest failure, and he doesn’t get along very well either with his seventeen-year-old nephew Lonnie, the son of a brother of his who died in a car accident. Both Hud and Lonnie are attracted to Alma, Homer’s young housekeeper, but no relationship or affection can distract Hud from his selfishness… A thorny role as an irredeemable antihero for young Paul Newman, handsome and seductive in his amorality bordering on excess. Formidable directing by Ritt, with a screenplay based on a novel by Larry McMurtry (Horseman, Pass By).
Biography
film director
Martin Ritt
(New York, 1914 – Santa Monica, 1990), American director, film producer, and playwright, linked his name to Hollywood cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, in a phase halfway between the decline of the Studio System and the birth of New Hollywood, interpreting the tensions of his time and remaining faithful to the methods of classic cinema. He worked with the greatest actors (and others) of his generation, from Orson Welles to Paul Newman (both in The Long, Hot Summer), from Sidney Poitier to John Cassavetes (together in Edge of the City), and then with the faces of the new American cinema, Woody Allen (The Front), Sally Field (Norma Rae, Oscar for Best Actress), Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda, a splendid mature couple in Stanley & Iris, her last film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Edge of the City (Nel fango della periferia, 1957), No Down Payment (Un urlo nella notte, 1957), The Black Orchid (Orchidea nera, 1958), The Long, Hot Summer (La lunga estate calda, 1958), The Sound and the Fury (L’urlo e la furia, 1959), 5 Branded Women (Jovanka e le altre, 1960), Paris Blues (1961), Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (Le avventure di un giovane, 1962), Hud (Hud il selvaggio, 1963), The Outrage (L’oltraggio, 1964), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (La spia che venne dal freddo, 1965), Hombre (1967), The Brotherhood (La fratellanza, 1968), The Molly Maguires (I cospiratori, 1970), The Great White Hope (Per salire più in basso, 1970), Sounder (1972), Pete ‘n’ Tillie (Un marito per Tillie, 1972), Conrack (1974), Der Richter und sein Henker (Assassinio sul ponte, 1975, attore), The Front (Il prestanome, 1976), Casey’s Shadow (Ultimo handicap, 1978), Norma Rae (1979), Back Roads (1981), Cross Creek (La foresta silenziosa, 1983), Murphy’s Romance (L’amore di Murphy, 1985), Nuts (Pazza, 1987), Stanley & Iris (Lettere d’amore, 1990).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Martin Ritt. STORY: Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry. SCREENPLAY: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Wong Howe. FILM EDITING: Frank Bracht. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Robert R. Benton. COSTUME DESIGN: Edith Head. MUSIC: Elmer Bernstein. CAST: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton, John Ashley, Val Avery, George Petrie, Curt Conway. PRODUCTION: Martin Ritt, Irving Ravetch for Paramount Pictures, Salem-Dover.
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