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What grade would you give this film?
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Hud is a 1963 western film whose title character is an embittered and selfish modern-day cowboy. With screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By, it was directed by Martin Ritt and stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and Brandon De Wilde and features Whit Bissell.

The tale chronicles the ongoing conflict between Homer Bannon, a principled, honorable—and unyielding—patriarch, and his son Hud, an unscrupulous, arrogant libertine. Caught in the middle is Lonnie, Homer's grandson and Hud's step-nephew, who ultimately has to choose between the two. The movie was primarily filmed in and around Claude, Texas.

Hud was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Director for Ritt. Patricia Neal won Best Actress, despite the brevity of the role which might have relegated her to Best Supporting Actress, and Melvyn Douglas won the first of his two Best Supporting Actor statuettes. James Wong Howe won the Best Black and White Cinematography Oscar.

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Just watched the majority of this last night and don't know how I had never heard anything about it. Newman is excellent as a bad guy cowboy, something I had never before saw from Newman. Newman plays an uncaring and mean son to a rancher who falls on hard times. Newman then tries to steal the ranch from under the father's hands and loses everything as a result and he doesn't even seem to mind, as evidenced by the last shot in the film. The cinematography is was very appealing especially since the film is in black and white

I highly recommend this film to everyone and it earned an A from me.


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