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