Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
- based on novel or book
- rodeo
- texas
- ranch
- alcoholism
- rebellious youth
- housekeeper
- neo-western
- hero worship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Paul Newman
Hud Bannon
Melvyn Douglas
Homer Bannon
Patricia Neal
Alma Brown
Brandon De Wilde
Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
- Whit Bissell — Mr. Burris
- Crahan Denton — Jesse
- John Ashley — Hermy
- Val Avery — Jose
- George Petrie — Joe Scanlon
- Curt Conway — Truman Peters
- Sheldon Allman — Mr. Thompson
- Pitt Herbert — Mr. Larker
- Robert Hinkle — Rodeo Announcer Frank
- Sharyn Hillyer — Myra
- Yvette Vickers — Lily Peters
- Directed
- Martin Ritt
- Written
- Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 361 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
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