Word: hud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't often happen that a movie advertisement has much relation to the film it promotes. But in the ads for Hud, buried under mountains of drivel (The Man With The Barbed Wire Soull etc.) is the simple statement, "Paul Newman is Hud." The adwriter no doubt had reasons of his own for saying "is" rather than "as" or "in". Still, even if by accident, he said something true. Paul Newman's performance is so superb, so complete, that he doesn't merely play the role of Hud Bannon, he is Hud...
Newman's acting is one of two things that make Hud better than just a good modern adult western. The other is the screenplay, adapted by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. from a novel by Larry McMurtry. Besides being an absorbing study in the conflict between two strong personalities, it is that rarity among Hollywood scripts, a critique of society...
...Hud. This honest and absorbing film has all the elements to make it a classic in its own time: a no-compromise script, sensitive direction and photography, and a matchless cast composed of Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde...
...Hud. Paul Newman. Patricia Neal. Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde star in the most brazenly honest picture to be made in the U.S. this season. If the question "Why Hud?" is never answered, the question "Why Hollywood?" gets a rousing and affirmative reply...
...Hud. Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon de Wilde and Patricia Neal make up almost the entire cast of this magnificently pungent film about an unregenerate heel, a decent old man, and a boy who makes a choice of heroes...