Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Directed by John Schlesinger

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Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York 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.

Genre: Drama

Language: en

Production

Cinematographer: Adam Holender · Composer: John Barry · Editor: Hugh A. Robertson · Production Design: John Robert Lloyd

Production: Florin Productions

Budget: $3.6M

Script: Read the script on Script Slug

1 screening currently listed

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