Hud (1963)

Hud is a 1963 film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures. Hud was filmed on location on the Texas Panhan

Directed by Martin Ritt. With Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde. Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

On a Texas ranch an unruly man is bitter enemies with his elderly father, assaults and abuses the woman housekeeper, and shows a young boy who idolizes him the wrong examples.

Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromi...

Hud (1963) is the story of the title character - a young Texas rancher named Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), the son of moral patriarch, law-abiding cattleman Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) in modern day Texas. His crude nature was described in the film's tagline:

Overview of Hud, 1963, directed by Martin Ritt, with Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, at Turner Classic Movies

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."

Hud is a 1963 drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas. It is based on the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry.

Hud is a 1963 western film about an unyielding patriarch, whose sense of principle and honor brings him into conflict with Hud, his only surviving son – an unscrupulous, arrogant libertine.

Summary: Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.