Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The big deal about this film is the fact that it was the first X-rated movie to win Best Picture (BTW it was re-rated R in 1971 without being reedited). Otherwise it just doesn’t hold up. Sylvia Miles 6-minute performance received a Best Supporting Actress nomination?! Though not a strong year for "Great Movies" I’d have voted for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) instead. Director John Schlesinger and the Adapted Screenplay also won Oscars. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight were nominated. Added to the National Film Registry in 1994. #36 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list. "I’m walking here! I’m walking here!" is #27 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list.

Voight is a cowboy from Texas who travels to New York City to try and make it as a hustler "servicing" rich women. He is befriended by a lonely bum/con (Hoffman) who convinces Voight he needs an agent. They live together in an abandoned building in squalor and filth. The only "jobs" Hoffman seems to be able to find for Voight are with men though Voight does become acquainted with Miles and Brenda Vaccaro. Hoffman’s character starts to deteriorate and Voight’s character begins to care for him meaning he’ll have to forego his already nonexistent values.

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