The man with the barbed-wire soul.
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."
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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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
Crew
- Martin RittDirector
- Irving RavetchWriter
- Harriet Frank Jr.Writer
- Larry McMurtryNovel
- James Wong HoweDirector of Photography
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Frank BrachtEditor
- Irving RavetchProducer
- Martin RittProducer
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The Secret History 199273% alikeBook · Both grave.
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