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Midnight Cowboy

on BBC Two England

Director John Schlesinger introduces his first American film, twenty-five years after its orginal release. The movie, which won Oscars for best picture, director and screenplay, became a classic. Starring Dustin Hoffman JonVoight Texan Joe Buck is as naive as he is handsome. Dressed in a cowboy outfit, he takes the Greyhound bus to New York where he plans to trade on his looks by acting as a professional stud to rich women. Taking a room in a seedy hotel he meets Ratso Rizzo , a tubercular, crippled con-man who offers to act as his manager in return for a percentage of his earnings.
John Schlesinger is currently working on a television adaptation of Stella Gibbons 's comic novel Cold Comfort
Farm to be screened on BBC 1 in Decemberthisyear.
The theme song Everybody's Talkin' was performed by Harry Nilsson , who can be seen in concert afterthis film.
Television presentation by Lindsay Davies
(1969) * FILM REVIEWS pages 47-54

Contributors

Introduces:
John Schlesinger
Unknown:
Dustin Hoffman Jonvoight
Unknown:
Ratso Rizzo
Unknown:
John Schlesinger
Unknown:
Stella Gibbons
Unknown:
Harry Nilsson
Presentation By:
Lindsay Davies
Ratso Rizzo:
Dustin Hoffman
Joe Buck:
Jon Voight
Cass:
Sylvia Miles
Shirley:
Brenda Vaccaro
Mr O'Daniel:
John McGiver
Towny:
Barnard Hughes
Sally Buck:
Ruth White
Annie:
Jennifer Salt
Woodsy Niles:
Gil Rankin
Ralph:
George Eppersen

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