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Director:
Writers:
Waldo Salt (screenplay)
James Leo Herlihy (novel)
Release Date:
16 June 1969 (Brazil) more
Tagline:
Whatever you hear about Midnight Cowboy is true. more
Plot:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 12 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(42 articles)
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Big Joe Heads To The Big Apple more (242 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dustin Hoffman | ... | Ratso | |
| Jon Voight | ... | Joe Buck | |
| Sylvia Miles | ... | Cass | |
| John McGiver | ... | Mr. O'Daniel | |
| Brenda Vaccaro | ... | Shirley | |
| Barnard Hughes | ... | Towny | |
| Ruth White | ... | Sally Buck - Texas | |
| Jennifer Salt | ... | Annie - Texas | |
| Gilman Rankin | ... | Woodsy Niles - Texas (as Gil Rankin) | |
| Gary Owens | ... | Little Joe - Texas | |
| T. Tom Marlow | ... | Little Joe - Texas | |
| George Eppersen | ... | Ralph - Texas | |
| Al Scott | ... | Cafeteria Manager - Texas | |
| Linda Davis | ... | Mother on the Bus - Texas | |
| J.T. Masters | ... | Old Cow-Hand - Texas |
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Runtime:
113 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono | Dolby Digital (DVD Release)
Certification:
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (DVD rating) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) (original rating) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | Brazil:16 | Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) | Norway:15 (TV rating) | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Netherlands:12 (re-rated) | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) (1988) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating) (1971) | USA:X (original rating) | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
114 East 72nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA more
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John McGiver played the religious fanatic, Mr. O'Daniel, with Jon Voight as Joe Buck, who'd been led to believe that O'Daniel is a bigtime pimp. McGiver had also played "Sen. Thomas Jordan" in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). In the remake of that film 42 years later (The Manchurian Candidate (2004)), Voight played "Sen. Thomas Jordan". more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Joe Buck is sitting on the porch, dressed in a military suit, talking about his grandmother's death, he spits backwards. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Joe Buck:
Whoopee-tee-yi-yo. Get along little dogies. It's your misfortune and none of my own.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in O anthropos roloi (1972) more
Soundtrack:
Florida Fantasy more
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Virile, but naive, big Joe Buck leaves his home in Big Spring, Texas, and hustles off to the Big Apple in search of women and big bucks. In NYC, JB meets up with frustration, and with "Ratso" Rizzo, a scruffy but cordial con artist. Somehow, this mismatched pair manage to survive each other which in turn helps both of them cope with a gritty, sometimes brutal, urban America, en route to a poignant ending.
Both funny and depressing, our "Midnight Cowboy" rides head-on into the vortex of cyclonic cultural change, and thus confirms to 1969 viewers that they, themselves, have been swept away from the 1950's age of innocence, and dropped, Dorothy and Toto like, into the 1960's Age of Aquarius.
The film's direction is masterful; the casting is perfect; the acting is top notch; the script is crisp and cogent; the cinematography is engaging; and the music enhances all of the above. Deservedly, it won the best picture Oscar of 1969, and I would vote it as one of the best films of that cyclonic decade.