Rent Hud (1963)

3.8 of 5 from 103 ratings
1h 47min
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Synopsis:
Seven Oscar® nominations were the result as celebrated director Martin Ritt guided Paul Newman to an Academy Award -nominated performance as Hud Bannon, the rebellious son of a respectable rancher who's continually at odds with his aging father.
Actors:
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Directors:
Writers:
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Others:
Robert Benton, Tambi Larsen, James Wong Howe, Hal Pereira, Sam Comer
Studio:
Paramount
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
Collections:
A History of Cinemas in Films, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, Getting to Know: Sidney Poitier, Oscar's Two-Time Club, Oscars: Winners & Losers
Awards:

1964 BAFTA Best Foreign Actress

1964 Oscar Best Supporting Actor

1964 Oscar Best Actress

1964 Oscar Best Cinematography Black and White

BBFC:
Release Date:
07/06/2004
Run Time:
107 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, German Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour

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Reviews (3) of Hud

One of Newman's best - Hud review by PT

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30/07/2015

Paul Newman really shines as the totally selfish, hard drinking womanising Hud. A man with no morals, no coscience, the total opposite of his father, who is honest, descent and always does the right thing. Melvyn Douglas is brilliant in the father role, well worthy of the Oscar he won for the effort. Brandon de Wilde, Hud's nephew , idolises Hud, thinking he's the man he wants to be. Patricia Neil also gives a great performance as the hired help at the ranch.

The film looks at right and wrong, through Hud's father and Hud respectively. Will Hud see the light, will his nephew follow in his footsteps? A fantastic western.

3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

engaging & brilliant study of a charming sociopath against a back drop of Midwest cattle farming - Hud review by tm

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08/03/2021

this scrupulous and subtle observation of family life in a Midwest cattle ranch is told with great skill and a tight script. it is delivered by an ensemble cast which never disappoints. the film is a painful joy to watch, from start to finish, even if the subject matter is harsh and so human.

Newman is electric and utterly believable while Patricia Neal lends a sad and evocative charm as the gentle but hopeful lost woman.

Melvyn Douglas realises the obscure role of the father perfectly, as someone who is at once wise and fair but possibly as much to blame for the consequences he himself despises.

Branden De Wilde plays his role as the cypher/ soft core of the film just right.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Texan Elegy. - Hud review by Steve

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Updated 08/09/2021

The film where Paul Newman emerged out of the shadow of Marlon Brando and the myth cast by James Dean's death. It's about a strong but ageing father (Melvyn Douglas) who lives by a rigid moral code and his contrasting relationships between his bad son (Newman) and a good grandson played by Brandon de Wilde. 

Hud Bannon really isn't an anti-hero at all, but an irredeemably contemptuous villain with a charming, attractive façade. In the era of the sixties counterculture Hud was taken as a role model for the way he stood up to and contested the rules his father lived by. They admired his individualism, however corrupt.

 Patricia Neal is sympathetic as the Bannon's sassy housekeeper with a past, who occasionally enters into the crosshairs of Hud's licentious gaze. There is a very elegant score from Elmer Bernstein. But the glory of the film is James Wong Howe's photography in Panavision, dominated by the epic, white, Texan skies.  

Bannon is a rapacious capitalist who intends to flatten his father's ranch and produce oil. It is a landscape where sickness is endemic, and the future uncertain. Hud is an elegiac lament to the passing of the old west, But it is political too; the old men have let us down. It's time its institutions and conventions were challenged.

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

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