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You are in: Midnight Cowboy [1969]
starring:
Dustin Hoffman,
Jon Voight,
Sylvia Miles,
John McGiver,
Brenda Vaccaro,
Barnard Hughes,
Ruth White (II),
Jennifer Salt,
Gilman Rankin,
Gary Owens (III),
T. Tom Marlow,
George Eppersen,
Al Scott,
Linda Davis,
J.T. Mastersdirected by:
John Schlesinger
Price: £7.50
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
EAN: 5013037142136
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Label: MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalogItalianOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
Release Date: March 20, 2026
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson