A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
- Director
- Writers
- Waldo Salt(screenplay)
- James Leo Herlihy(based on the novel by)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Waldo Salt(screenplay)
- James Leo Herlihy(based on the novel by)
- Stars
- Won 3 Oscars
- 28 wins & 16 nominations total
Gilman Rankin
- Woodsy Niles - Texas
- (as Gil Rankin)
- Director
- Writers
- Waldo Salt(screenplay)
- James Leo Herlihy(based on the novel by)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaBefore Dustin Hoffman auditioned for this film, he knew that the all-American image that he carried after The Graduate could easily cost him the job. To prove that he could play Rizzo, he asked the auditioning film executive to meet him on a street corner in Manhattan, and in the meantime, dressed himself in filthy rags. The executive arrived at the appointed corner and waited, barely noticing the "beggar" less than ten feet away who was accosting people for spare change. At last, the beggar walked up to him and revealed his true identity.
- GoofsWhen Joe Buck is hungry and destitute, he stops in a diner and sits with a weird mother and son. The son looks at the tracking camera twice, before dialog resumes.
- Quotes
Ratso Rizzo: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
- Alternate versionsABC edited 25 minutes from this film for its 1974 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #2.2 (1972)
- SoundtracksEverybody's Talkin'
Words and Music by Fred Neil
Arranged and Conducted by George Aliceson Tipton (as George Tipton)
Sung by Harry Nilsson (as Nilsson)
Review
Featured review
One of my all-time favorites
This is one of the half-dozen films that left me shaken upon leaving the theater where I saw it in 1969 (at the age of 19). It has all the bizarreness and griminess that was New York in the late '60s, which was pretty frightening to a sheltered Brooklyn teenager. The direction and cinematography were highly unusual for that time, and the use of montages and cuts (and the trippy shots of the Warholesque party) made the film even more disorienting. The film never sags and holds your attention throughout, and the through line of the plot -- the friendship between Rizzo and Joe Buck -- has about as much emotional impact as anything else I've ever seen. Equally of interest is the psychological content of the flashbacks that show how Joe became the way he is. The star performances are outstanding -- hard to see how either of them could lose to John Wayne -- and the sheer variety of supporting actor performances is incredible. A fully realized, three-dimensional film that probably couldn't find backers today.
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- Also known as
- Midnight Cowboy
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- Budget
- $3,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $44,785,053
- Gross worldwide
- $44,801,177
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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