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Midnight Cowboy
Texan cowboy Joe Buck comes to New York, convinced he can make a rich living from love-starved women. But soon he's reduced to sharing a sleazy apartment with Ratso Rizzo, a small-time con man with big dreams. From this unlikely partnership springs a deep friendship and a fierce determination to live the American Dream.
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY OST
author: SOUNDTRACK; publisher: EMI
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Midnight Cowboy [1969]
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's <i>Midnight Cowboy</i> seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective stupid acting tricks, with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban <i>Of Mice and Men</i>, but where both guys are Lenny. <i>--Jim Emerson</i>
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Boxtree John Barry: A Sixties Theme: from James Bond to Midnight Cowboy
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Scribner Midnight Cowboy
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Midnight Cowboy
Joe Buck, naively charming Texan "cowboy", seeks his fortune in the Big Apple, but encounters Ratso Rizzo, a sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams. Living on the fringe of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond. This is the book on which the Academy Award-winning film was based. author: Herlihy, James Leo; publisher: Scribner
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