Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have been a much less effective film if it had stuck to moral absolutes, to the simple opposition between good and bad. Because it doesn't, it is good drama and a subtly disturbing social commentary. The film is set on a ranch in contemporary Texas, and it centers around the battle between Hud and his father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) for the allegiance of Hud's cousin (Brandon de Wilde). Homer's honesty is tied up with his idea of the dignity of work. His cynical son values money and physical pleasure. The temptation to turn Hud into...
...feed the ducks, an elderly, Czechoslovakian-born widow named Venceslava Hanush. When Mrs. Hanush heard people at the park say that the sick or crippled ducks were going to be fed to animals at the city zoo, Lopez decided to take direct action. An old acquaintance who owns a ranch in Southern California promised to provide a home for the ducks. Lopez and Mrs. Hanush worked up a plan to gather up young or ailing ducks and transport them to the ranch. To help carry out the plan, they recruited another park frequenter named Steve Newrocky...
...four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...
...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...