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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Featuring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Bob Balaban, Ruth White
One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late-1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy 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, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.
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Format: Blu-ray
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1.85:1
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English 1.0 PCM Mono
, English 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround
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English
Region:
A
Discs:
1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman
- New selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender
- The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy
- Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, an Academy Award–nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann
- Two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy
- Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970
- Interview from 2000 with John Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles
- Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA Tribute to John Schlesinger, featuring Jon Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Mark Harris
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