Midnight cowboy

Resource Information

The work Midnight cowboy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Midnight cowboy

Statement of responsibility

United Artists ; a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay, Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger

Contributor

• McGiver, John, 1913-1975
• Miles, Sylvia, 1924-2019
• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• Robertson, Hugh A.
• Herlihy, James Leo
• Hellman, Jerome
• Salt, Jennifer, 1944-
• Salt, Waldo
• Barry, John, 1933-2011
• Johnson, Georgann
• Balaban, Bob
• Tice, Jan, 1935-2011
• United Artists Corporation
• Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939-
• Jerome Hellman Productions
• Voight, Jon, 1938-
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• White, Ruth, 1914-1969
• Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003
• Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006
• Holender, Adam

Actor

• Johnson, Georgann
• White, Ruth, 1914-1969
• Voight, Jon, 1938-
• Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939-
• Tice, Jan, 1935-2011
• Balaban, Bob
• Salt, Jennifer, 1944-
• Miles, Sylvia, 1924-2019
• Hoffman, Dustin, 1937-
• McGiver, John, 1913-1975
• Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006

Director of photography

• Holender, Adam

Editor of moving image work

• Robertson, Hugh A.

Film director

• Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003

Film producer

• Hellman, Jerome

Presenter

• United Artists Corporation

Production company

• United Artists Corporation
• Jerome Hellman Productions

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Salt, Waldo

Subject

• Criminals -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Swindlers and swindling -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Male prostitutes -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Male friendship -- Drama
• Outcasts -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• Drama

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

"One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its 'homosexual frame of reference,' Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema"--Container

Related

•  Unknown Label

Member of

• Criterion collection, 925
• Midnight cowboy (Motion picture)

Awards note

Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Adam Holender ; editor, Hugh A. Robertson ; musical supervision, John Barry

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired (SDH)

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.M43687 2018

PerformerNote

Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes, Jennifer Salt, Bob Balaban, Georgann Johnson, Jan Tice, Jonathan Kramer

Runtime

113

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

925

Technique

live action