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Hud
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 too 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."
1963 · Directed by Martin Ritt · 112 min · Drama · Western · 43 frames
Tagline
The man with the barbed-wire soul.
Crew
- Written by: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
- Cinematography: James Wong Howe
- Edited by: Frank Bracht
- Music: Elmer Bernstein
- Produced by: Irving Ravetch, Martin Ritt
Cast
- Paul Newman as Hud Bannon
- Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon
- Patricia Neal as Alma Brown
- Brandon De Wilde as Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
- Whit Bissell as Mr. Burris
- Crahan Denton as Jesse
- John Ashley as Hermy
- Val Avery as Jose
- George Petrie as Joe Scanlon
- Curt Conway as Truman Peters
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $2,500,000
- Box office: $10,000,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, rodeo, texas, ranch, alcoholism, rebellious youth, housekeeper, neo-western, hero worship
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