Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight star in John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning drama based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy. Texan dishwasher Joe Buck (Voight) dreams of making it big in New York. Convinced that he can make his fortune providing sexual favours for wealthy women, he makes the move to the Big Apple. Unfortunately, the first woman he beds down with, Cass (Sylvia Miles), doesn’t have any money to speak of, and borrows some of his. At this point, sleazy street-hustler Enrico ’Ratso’ Rizzo (Hoffman) enters the frame, offering to become Joe’s ’manager’. The only engagement he can arrange is with a gay Christian (John McGiver), but Joe and Ratso soon become close friends, fantasizsng to each other about the millions they are going to make. The film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, while both Hoffman and Voight were nominated for Best Actor. First (and last) X rated film to win Best Picture Oscar. Was later re-rated to R.

Robert Blake was offered the part of Ratso, but declined.

Lee Majors was originally cast as Joe Buck, but had to pull out when TV’s The Big Valley (1965) was renewed for another season.

Harrison Ford, Warren Beatty and Michael Sarrazin also screen tested for the role of Joe Buck.

1969

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