Midnight cowboy

DVD 2018

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 ٢Ratso٣ Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a b...

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ISBN:

9781681434476
0792833287

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (113 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A

Other Title:

Midnight cowboy (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Title from container
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969
Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1)
For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc
Number of dics may vary
Director of photography, Adam Holender; editor, Hugh A. Robertson; music, John Barry
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White
DVD, NTSC, region1; Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1) presentation; Monaural
For private home use only
Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium

Control Number:

2491215

UPC:

715515215411
883904103585

Other Authors:

Barry, John, 1933-2011, composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), presenter, publisher
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Hellman, Jerome, film producer
Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- actor
Jerome Hellman Productions, production company
Miles, Sylvia, 1924-2019, actor
Salt, Waldo, screenwriter
Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003, film director
United Artists Corporation, presenter
Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939- actor
Voight, Jon, 1938- actor
motion picture adaptation of (work): Herlihy, James Leo. Midnight cowboy

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