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...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...
...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...
...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...
...Bannon is a bounder, he is never a bore. With his good looks, appetite for hell-raising and rootless amorality, he follows his code of don't-give-a-damn with snakelike charm on the cattle ranch where he lives with his decent old father (Melvyn Douglas) and his idolizing 17-year-old nephew (Brandon de Wilde). Hud sleeps with married women, blitzes the countryside in a pink Cadillac convertible, and devils the ranch's devoted and attractive housekeeper (Patricia Neal) with whispered propositions...
...next man, but there were moments when I felt myself compromised by what was going on up there. For one example, instead of having Stephen Canfield (Daniel Cheever), Ninotcha's American, merely kiss his frosty Russian, he has the two of them roll on the floor. Can you imagine Melvyn Douglas rolling on the floor? Did Mr. Cheever imagine he would have to roll on the floor? To his credit, I think he did not, for he seemed embarrassed by the sordid business...