Val Avery, Paul Newman, Crahan Denton, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, John Ashley, George Petrie, Curt Conway
Director
Martin Ritt
Year
1963
Category
Action, Drama, Western
Language
French, English
Subtitles
Dutch, French
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."