HUD (1963)

Directed by: Martin Ritt

Based on the novel "Horseman, Pass By" by: Larry McMurtry

Cinematography by: James Wong Howe

Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton, John Ashley, Val Avery, George Petrie, Curt Conway, Sheldon Allman, Pitt Herbert, Carl Low, Robert Hinkle, Don Kennedy, Sharyn Hillyer, Yvette Vickers

112 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but he explains "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

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