Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

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

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Michael_Elliott Hud (1963)**** (out of 4) One of the bleakest films ever made, HUD centers on the title character played by Paul Newman who is about as ruthless as one can be. He cares for very little in this world and everything he does love is usually something bad. His father (Melvyn Douglas) has hated him for some time now but after their cattle grows sick they begin to butt heads.HUD certainly isn't a very cheerful film and it's one of the darkest and in reality sadness movies ever made. While it's not always easy to watch there's no denying its impact plus the fact that it contains three of the greatest performances that you're ever going to see. HUD works on many levels but it's strength is certainly the performances as well as its honest character study of someone most people will find cool but when you get pass all the smoke you see a rather ugly human being.The screenplay itself is extremely laid back and in fact the film is pretty quiet. There's not too much screaming or long speeches but instead there's just a very realistic tone that comes across quite natural and real. I think most people will be able to look at these main four characters and either be one of them are know someone like them. There's the young cool guy who hurts everything that he comes into contact with. There's the older wise man who stands by his morals. There's a broken house maid who is probably hiding some sadness. Then there's the young nephew who looks up to Hud not knowing or understanding his type of character.Then, there are the terrific performances, which are among the best you'll ever see. Newman never had an issue playing cool but he always made it look so easy. He brings that quality to Hud but there's also that underlying dirty and dangerous part. There's just a certainly coldness that Newman brings to the character, which we never saw from him in his other roles. Douglas rightfully won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his deep and very sincere performance. Neal is a great big ball of sadness and her deep eyes just say so much without her having to speak a word. Even Brandon De Wilde is very impressive in his role and especially when you consider the major talent he was acting against.HUD also features a terrific and haunting music score and the Oscar-winning cinematography perfectly captures the dusty dirt roads. The film manages to keep getting better with time as its messages are perhaps more true today than when the film was originally released.

jc-osms Rare to see Paul Newman play such an anti-hero and it's clear he relishes it. Counterpointed by strong performances from veteran Melvyn Douglas as his long- suffering father, Patricia Neal as their worldly housemaid and the young newcomer Brandon De Wilde as the impressionable youth whose loyalties are tried, tested and ultimately destroyed by Uncle Hud's selfishness and boorishness.These four actors and their characters' inter-relationships are pretty much the movie in a story that feels at times theatrical but in fact was adapted from a novel. I'd describe the plot as like "Shane" reflected through Tennessee Williams, so that the perhaps mis-directed hero-worship of a young man is this time thwarted by an idol with feet of clay.Throughout the film, Hud does nothing admirable or selfless and sort of tolerates the young acolyte trailing in his wake before a drunken attempted rape of Neal breaks the spell. I didn't however like Neal's acceptance of her ordeal, especially when she says she would have eventually let him have her in the future, betraying an unacceptable streak of chauvinism in the writing. Better to watch are the tensions and conflicts between grandfather-patriarch Douglas, errant, number two son Hud (we're made aware that Hud is responsible for the premature death of the elder son, De Wilde's father) and De Wilde himself, torn between his admiration of the former and misplaced envy of the latter's hedonism.Newman's on record as saying this is one of his favourite of his own movies and it's easy to see why. He's hardly every off the screen and he's excellent in his cast-against-type lead role. A contemporary Western shot in beautifully-lit black and white by James Wong Howe and sensitively directed by Martin Ritt, this was a gripping and involving family saga featuring a great star turn by one of the best actors of the 60's.

grizzledgeezer Please note my rating is for the film -- NOT "the film as an adaptation of the novel" -- to which I'd give a 5.Reviewers and readers here are likely unaware that "Hud" is based on Larry McMurtry's first novel, "Horseman, Pass By".None of the McMurtry novels I've read shows much interest in "character development" -- how people get better or worse with time. Except for Lon (who gradually comes to recognize that Hud is a bad role model *), no one in the film changes. So it's not surprising that some people dislike the film for this reason alone.Though the film sticks pretty close to the novel's storyline, it significantly alters the /nature/ of the characters, converting them from moderately complex human beings into black-and-white representations of good and bad, and "spokesmen" for the changes going on in Texas society and business.If you're interested in an in-depth discussion, please look at my Amazon review of "Horseman, Pass By", under the summary "Hey, pass them old potatoes before I kill you!". It discusses the differences between the book and film, and has a brief appreciation of MAD's classic send-up, "Hood".* In the novel, he knows it from the start. Indeed, he's afraid of Hud.

Mr Spark One of Martin Ritt's true masterpieces. A movie that describes an egotistic man named Hud Bannon that torments the lives of his loved ones while he acts like a suitable role model for his younger nephew. The acting has truly changed my perception of Paul Newman who plays the anti-hero with great prominence and innuendo. Above all Patricia Neal's performance glitters like gold, her Oscar was well deserved. No need to mention the outstanding performance of Melvyn Douglas and Brandon De Wilde. The cinematography is where I really want to focus since I have never seen a Simple drama film like this have such a wonderful feeling of smooth camera work. The depiction of the plot on camera is subtle and uniquely satisfying. The scene that grasps my admiration is the murdering of the cattle, the way it is filmed leaves the viewer to assume and imagine the horror of what is happening in that pit. Overall i give this films a well deserved 8/10.