This is a cinematic tribute to the last of the modern Westerns, cattle ranching and farming. Novelist Larry McMurtry wrote about a slice of Americana during its waning years.
Hud is the main character who has the worst affect on the people he comes in closest contact with, namely his immediate family members (father and nephew) and their employees (mainly, able and caring housekeeper, Alma).
If you're not affected by this small, Southwestern personal tragedy, then you never grew up in a small, rural town (as I did) during its last legendary days.
The quartet cast of actors is excellent and moving. Newman, Douglas and Neal were each nominated (Douglas and Neal took home Oscars for Best Supporting). 1964: Brandon De Wilde accepted Douglas' Academy Award (Douglas was in Israel at the time). That year, the ceremonies were held at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium.
McMurtry never topped this, his most dramatically challenging novel ("Horseman, Pass By"). His other books were adapted as films, but nowhere more satisfying than this adaptation. Among other books, he wrote "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment."
Hud is the main character who has the worst affect on the people he comes in closest contact with, namely his immediate family members (father and nephew) and their employees (mainly, able and caring housekeeper, Alma).
If you're not affected by this small, Southwestern personal tragedy, then you never grew up in a small, rural town (as I did) during its last legendary days.
The quartet cast of actors is excellent and moving. Newman, Douglas and Neal were each nominated (Douglas and Neal took home Oscars for Best Supporting). 1964: Brandon De Wilde accepted Douglas' Academy Award (Douglas was in Israel at the time). That year, the ceremonies were held at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium.
McMurtry never topped this, his most dramatically challenging novel ("Horseman, Pass By"). His other books were adapted as films, but nowhere more satisfying than this adaptation. Among other books, he wrote "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment."