Midnight Cowboy [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Dustin Hoffman
  • Actor : Jon Voight
  • Actor : Sylvia Miles
  • Actor : John McGiver
  • Actor : Brenda Vaccaro
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Dustin Hoffman
  • Creator : Jon Voight
  • Director : John Schlesinger
  • EAN : 0027616135988
  • Format : AC-3
  • Format : Collector's Edition
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : Dubbed
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: Spanish, Subtitled: French, Original Language: English, Original Language: Italian, Dubbed: French
  • Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • MPN : MGMD13598D
  • Number Of Discs : 2
  • Number Of Items : 2
  • Package Dimensions : 0.80 inches (Height) x 7.60 inches (Length) x 0.45 pounds (Weight) x 5.50 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : MGMD13598D
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2006-02-21
  • Running Time : 113
  • SKU : 027616135988
  • Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • UPC : 027616135988

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

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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