Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Name: Midnight Cowboy
Released: 1969
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro

• Movies, Drama

• 113 min

7.5

For those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it.

Directed by: John Schlesinger
Casting: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Gilman Rankin, Gary Owens, T. Tom Marlow, George Eppersen, Al Scott, Linda Davis, J.T. Masters, Arlene Reeder, Georgann Johnson, Jonathan Kramer, Anthony Holland, Bob Balaban, Jan Tice, Paul Benjamin, Peter Scalia, Vito Siracusa, Peter Zamagias, Arthur Anderson, Tina Scala, Alma Felix, Richard Clarke, Ann Thomas, Viva, Paul Rossilli, Ultra Violet, Paul Jabara, International Velvet, Cecelia Lipson, Taylor Mead, Paul Morrissey, Joan Murphy, Al Stetson, M. Emmet Walsh, Sandy Duncan, Philip Bruns, Waldo Salt, Bill Walters, Jay Morran, Renee Semes, Jeffrey Walker, Mary Boylan, Marlene Clark, Paul Jasmin, Pat Ast, Randall Carver, Robert Dahdah, Trent Gough, Larry Sherman, Barbara Maggio, James Miller, Lucian Addario, William Door
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1969-05-25
Status: Released

Tags: new york city, friendship, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, shower, texas, hustler, homelessness, rape of a male, male homosexuality, male prostitution, fish out of water, gang rape, cynical, lgbt, male bonding, polio, 1960s, anxious, cautionary, provocative

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.