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Midnight Cowboy

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes

Directed by: John Schlesinger

RS: 4of 4 Stars

2006

Before there was Brokeback Mountain, there was Midnight Cowboy, director John Schlesinger's haunting 1969 classic about a conflicted connection between a naive Texan hustler and a sickly Bronx-born scammer. Producer Jerome Hellman provides commentary on this deluxe edition, and interviews with Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and others recount how a gritty milestone of convention-breaking cinema set in seedy Manhattan became the only X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar.