Hud poster
Director Martin Ritt
Writer Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

Hud

Tagline: The man with the barbed-wire soul.

Release Date: 1963-05-28

Duration: 112 minutes

Synopsis

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."

Casting

  • Paul Newman
    Hud Bannon
  • Patricia Neal
    Alma Brown
  • Brandon De Wilde
    Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
  • Melvyn Douglas
    Homer Bannon
  • Don Kennedy
    Charlie Tucker
  • Crahan Denton
    Jesse
  • Sheldon Allman
    Mr. Thompson
  • Val Avery
    Jose
  • Whit Bissell
    Mr. Burris
  • Yvette Vickers
    Lily Peters