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Midnight Cowboy (1969)

X  |   |  Drama  |  16 June 1969 (Brazil)
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A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.

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Old Cow-Hand - Texas
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Storyline

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend. Written by alfiehitchie

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For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it. (1980 re-release) See more »

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16 June 1969 (Brazil)  »

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Perdidos en la noche  »

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$3,600,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

The comic book the little girl is reading on the bus is 'Wonder Woman' #178, cover dated September/October 1968. See more »

Goofs

When the main character, Voight, is hungry and destitute, he stops in a diner and sits with a weird mother and son. The son looks at the tracking camera not once but twice before dialog resumes. Easily edited, but left in, maybe on purpose. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Joe Buck: Whoopee-tee-yi-yo. Get along little dogies. It's your misfortune and none of my own.
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Soundtracks

The Last Round-Up (Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along)
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Music and Lyrics by Billy Hill
Sung a cappella by Jon Voight with modified lyrics
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Big Joe Heads To The Big Apple
15 June 2005 | by (Dallas, Texas) – See all my reviews

Virile, but naive, big Joe Buck leaves his home in Big Spring, Texas, and hustles off to the Big Apple in search of women and big bucks. In NYC, JB meets up with frustration, and with "Ratso" Rizzo, a scruffy but cordial con artist. Somehow, this mismatched pair manage to survive each other which in turn helps both of them cope with a gritty, sometimes brutal, urban America, en route to a poignant ending.

Both funny and depressing, our "Midnight Cowboy" rides head-on into the vortex of cyclonic cultural change, and thus confirms to 1969 viewers that they, themselves, have been swept away from the 1950's age of innocence, and dropped, Dorothy and Toto like, into the 1960's Age of Aquarius.

The film's direction is masterful; the casting is perfect; the acting is top notch; the script is crisp and cogent; the cinematography is engaging; and the music enhances all of the above. Deservedly, it won the best picture Oscar of 1969, and I would vote it as one of the best films of that cyclonic decade.


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