HUD (1963)

WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION

One of the screen’s most likable stars, Paul Newman, went over to the dark side as “the man with the barbed-wire soul” in this revisionist Western. Hud only cares about himself and clashes with his father (Melvyn Douglas) over how to deal with an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease on their Texas ranch, and with his adoring nephew (Brandon de Wilde) over his treatment of their housekeeper (Patricia Neal). Though the original novel, Larry McMurtry’s Horseman, Pass By, had followed the nephew’s point-of-view, director Martin Ritt and screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. moved Hud to the front as a critique of unbridled greed. Ironically, young audiences idolized Hud for his rebellion against his father’s traditional values, reflecting the rise of an anti-establishment audience. The film won Oscars for Neal and Douglas’ performances as well as James Wong Howe’s vivid black-and-white cinematography.

d. Martin Ritt, 112m, DCP

DCP courtesy of Paramount Pictures Archive and the Criterion Collection.

We regret the following will no longer attend as previously announced: Paul Schrader