Memorable, crazy movie

Fantastic!

Absolutely the worst movie.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I knew I had seen it, I had a black and white James Wong Howe Cinemascope memory and Paul Newman's body language. How he walks, how he stands. I remember thinking that Jake Gyllenhaal had borrowed that physicality for his character in "Brokeback Mountain" and I just realized that Larry McMurtry is the author of both "Brokeback Mountain" and "Hud". He provides us with a look into the modern cowboy that is not only unique but mesmerizing. Paul Newman's Hud is a cad and yet you feel we sense that behind the bravado hides a desperate man looking for something. Something personal and unspoken. Hud is one of my favorite Newman performances. Soulless and yet needy. Is it a coincidence that the only woman that"got away" from Hud is named Alma? - Alma in Spanish means soul - Alma is played by Patricia Neal with power and humanity and she won the Oscar for it. Melvyn Douglas also won the Oscar for his superb performance and Brandon de Wilde deserved one of his own. He is extraordinary. Hud has become an important film in my life and in future viewings in years to come I may discover why.

If you only watch one Paul Newman movie in your life, watch Hud.A bad boy with sex appeal oozing off the screen, Hud is hard to resist. He's quick with a fight, a one-liner, and a love-and-run romance. He's bad news, but the audience can't help but like and root for him. He's positively magnetic, but two characters in the film resist him. His father, Melvyn Douglas, clashes with him at every turn, and their fights are devastating to watch. And Patricia Neal, the woman with more willpower than any woman alive.Newman and Neal spark, sizzle, and scorch. It's worth watching the film just to feel their chemistry. Neal won the Best Actress Oscar, and Melvyn Douglas won Best Supporting Actor, but unfortunately Paul Newman lost his contest. Sidney Poitier won his make-up Oscar that year (Lilies of the Field, as an apology for losing the Oscar for The Defiant Ones in 1959 and not being nominated for A Raisin in the Sun in 1962), but Paul Newman would have to wait 25 years to receive his make-up Oscar.Hud is a classic, but it's a heavy drama, so make sure you're in the right mood when you rent it. It's really fantastic, and the script is smart, sexy, and sorrowful. It's too bad the Academy was so taken with Tom Jones that year; Hud lost the adapted screenplay award and wasn't even nominated for Best Picture. At least director Martin Ritt was nominated. He directed five Paul Newman movies, and this one really shows off his talents.

Nominated for seven Oscars (inexplicably though not for Best Picture, when it was in a different league to the films nominated from personal opinion) and deservedly winning three (cinematography and Best Supporting Actor being especially deserving), 'Hud' is still over fifty years later regarded in high esteem and no wonder.'Hud' is powerhouse stuff, a very bold film thematically back in 1963 and has lost none of its chills, power or poignancy fifty four years later. 'Hud' still looks world-class technically, while atmospherically lit and handsomely mounted the cinematography win is one of the category's most richly deserved, can't think of any other film from that year that had cinematography so rich in atmosphere and beauty or that provoked so many stark chills and melancholic emotion.Elmer Bernstein's score is restrained but also very haunting, while the script is sardonic and thoughtful with some of Homer's lines unforgettable in a life-affirming sense. The story is tightly paced and makes the most of seemingly black and white but actually richly and complexly drawn characters. The telling of it pulls no punches and it has none of its harrowing and poignant emotional power.Paul Newman's performance in 'Hud' is one of his finest. It is gut-wrenching to see one of the most handsome and coolest actors in film history play a character with so few redeeming qualities and do it so powerfully. Melvyn Douglas embodies wisdom and nobility, while Patricia Neal is touching and Brandon De Wilde more than holds his own in an "observing the action" sort of role.All in all, a powerhouse film in every sense. 10/10 Bethany Cox

In rural Texas, Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) is a self-centered amoral womanizer. He's always in conflict with his principled rancher father Homer (Melvyn Douglas). His nephew Lonnie looks up to him. The Bannon boys are attracted to housekeeper Alma (Patricia Neal) but she's been mistreated before. Homer insists on calling the government vet after a mysterious cattle death despite Hud's objections. Foot and mouth disease is suspected and the entire herd is in danger of liquidation. Hud wants to sell the herd no matter the consequences to other people.All four lead performances are amazing. Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas are incredible. Patricia Neal is truly brilliant. It's one of the great female performances of all times. The fact that she's not the lead and still won the Oscar for lead actress says a lot. She gives a full body performance. Paul Newman is so likable that he turns the amoral character into a hero of some sort. The look is crisp black and white. It's a movie of compelling characters and terrific performances.