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Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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."
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic62/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
371 audience votes
Key crew
- Martin RittDirector
- Irving RavetchWriter
- Harriet Frank Jr.Writer
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Paul NewmanHud Bannon
- Melvyn DouglasHomer Bannon
- Patricia NealAlma Brown
- Brandon De WildeLon 'Lonnie' Bannon
- Whit BissellMr. Burris
- Crahan DentonJesse
- John AshleyHermy
- Val AveryJose
- George PetrieJoe Scanlon
- Curt ConwayTruman Peters
- Sheldon AllmanMr. Thompson
- Pitt HerbertMr. Larker
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Themes
based on novel or bookrodeotexasranchalcoholismrebellious youthhousekeeperneo-westernhero worship
The Best Movies of 1963
Hud is #24 of 60
