
Rio Bravo(1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.


“The man with the barbed-wire soul.”
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Paul Newman
Hud Bannon

Melvyn Douglas
Homer Bannon

Patricia Neal
Alma Brown

Brandon De Wilde
Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon

Whit Bissell
Mr. Burris

Crahan Denton
Jesse

John Ashley
Hermy

Val Avery
Jose

George Petrie
Joe Scanlon

Curt Conway
Truman Peters
Hud is a drama, western film released in 1963 exploring themes of based on novel or book, rodeo, texas, ranch, alcoholism, rebellious youth. Directed by Martin Ritt, it stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal. Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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