Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- NC-17
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
- new york city
- friendship
- prostitute
- rape
- based on novel or book
- shower
- texas
- hustler
- homelessness
- rape of a male
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brenda Vaccaro — Shirley
- Barnard Hughes — Towny
- Ruth White — Sally Buck
- Jennifer Salt — Annie
- Gilman Rankin — Woodsy Niles
- Gary Owens — Little Joe
- T. Tom Marlow — Little Joe
- George Eppersen — Ralph
- Al Scott — Cafeteria Manager
- Linda Davis — Mother on the Bus
- J.T. Masters — Old Cow-Hand
- Directed
- John Schlesinger
- Written
- Waldo Salt
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,629 ratings
- Studio
- Florin Productions, Jerome Hellman Productions, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
