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Hud

Cast

Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde View All


Crew

Martin Ritt (Director), Irving Ravetch (Writer), Harriet Frank Jr. (Writer) View All

Release: May 28th, 1963
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
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...
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Captain Spaulding
Within the first few scenes -- a bar owner sweeping broken glass ("Hud was in here last night."), Hud nonchalantly exiting the house of another man's wife and allowing his nephew to take the blame when the husband demands an explanation, Hud recklessly destroying the housekeeper's azaleas with his s....
Gideon58
Homer is doing what he can to keep Hud from being a hero to his grandson, Lonnie (Brandon de Wilde) but is not doing a good job with that, despite the fact that Hud's drinking led to the death of Lonnie's father many years ago.


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