Word: newman
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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...
...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...
...speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English, and is an established star in the French, German and Italian cinema. In the parts that have built her fame, she has almost invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with a passing cat. Hollywood hired her to star opposite Paul Newman in a picture at M-G-M called The Prize. Newman has won the Nobel Prize in literature, and she plays a Swedish girl who guides him around Stockholm...
...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...
What does he see on Cordelia's lips? We don't know. For us, as for John Henry Newman, "Omnia exeunt in mysterium." But for Lear, the ultimate question is answered, and the answer comes as a sudden flash of enlightenment analogous to the Buddhists' satorl. This ecstatic discovery is what Lear should convey to us in his last two lines...