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Midnight Cowboy
1969 Directed by John Schlesinger
Joe Buck, the Midnight Cowboy (JON VOIGHT) is a good-looking, uneducated Texas youth convinced that he is the salvation of many lonely, love-starved New York women. Joe quits his dishwashing job, outfits himself in synthetic cowboy regalia and heads East to parlay his sexual skill into fame and fortune.
In New York, friendless and broke, he meets Ratso (DUSTIN HOFFMAN). a sickly, undersized Bronx-born drifter, who first victimizes then teams up with him. As cynical and knowing as Joe is optimistic and naive, Ratso, too, has a dream. Re wants to repudiate his dismal past and start a new life. He voices his hopes only as the wish to go to Florida where a diet of coconut milk and sunshine will restore his health.
These two loners join forces to bilk a hostile world which rebuffs them at every turn. Among Those they encounter on their increasingly desperate sorties into the byways and side streets of Manhattan are: Shirley (BRENDA VACCARO), an attractive career girl who relishes the prospect of an affair
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with Joe; O'Daniel (JOHN McGIVER), a street-corner evangelist; Towny (BARNARD HUGHES), a conventioneer looking for off-beat fun and games and Cass (SYLVIA MILES), a restless ex-hooker who welcomes the excitement of Joe's visit to the plush penthouse provided by her current sponsor.
Gradually, Joe and Ratso become companions as well as business partners. Each has found his first friend. Joe finally manages to raise the bus fare to take Them to Florida . but Ratso's dream never comes true.
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The Cast
Ratso Rino ....................... Dustin Hoffman
Joe Buck ....................... Jon Voight
Cass ....................... Sylvia Miles
Mr. O'Daniel ....................... John McGiver
Shirley ....................... Brenda Vaccaro
Towny ....................... Barnard Hughes
Sally Buck ....................... Ruth White
Annie ....................... Jennifer Salt
Woodsy Niles ....................... Gil Rankin
Little Joe ....................... Gary Owens, T. Tom Marlow
Rich Lady ....................... Georgann Johnson
Jackie ....................... Jonathan Kramer
TV Bishop ....................... Anthony Holland
The Young Student ....................... Bob Balaban
Gretel McAlbertson ....................... Viva
Production Staff
Producer ....................... Jerome Hellman
Director ....................... John Schlesinger
Based on The novel by ....................... James Leo Herlihy
Screenplay by ....................... Waldo Salt
Musical Supervision ....................... John Barry
Director of Photography ....................... Adam Holender
Film Editor ....................... Hugh A. Robertson
A Jerome Hellman- John Schlesinger Production
Color by Deluxe
United Artists Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation
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