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Title:

Midnight cowboy / a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay by Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

2 videodiscs (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Male prostitutes--New York--New York--Drama.
Swindlers and swindling--New York--New York--Drama.
Male friendship--Drama.
Outcasts--New York--New York--Drama.
Criminals--New York--New York--Drama.
Buddy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

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

Other Titles:

Midnight cowboy (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1) Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy. Features: audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman; new selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender; short film "The crowd around the cowboy" (1969) made on location for Midnight cowboy; "Waldo Salt : a screenwriter's journey" (1990) an Academy Awardnominated documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann; two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight cowboy; interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost show from 1970; interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles; excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman; trailer. Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes.

Summary:

Two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 925.

ISBN:

1681434474
9781681434476

UPC:

715515215411

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)