Jon Voight

Dustin Hoffman

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Brenda Vaccaro

Barnard Hughes

Ruth White

Jennifer Salt

Gilman Rankin

Gary Owens

T. Tom Marlow

George Eppersen

Al Scott

Linda Davis

J.T. Masters

Arlene Reeder

Georgann Johnson

Jonathan Kramer

Anthony Holland

Bob Balaban

Jan Tice

Paul Benjamin

Peter Scalia

Vito Siracusa

Peter Zamagias

Arthur Anderson

Tina Scala

Alma Felix

Richard Clarke

Ann Thomas

Viva

Paul Rossilli

Ultra Violet

Paul Jabara

International Velvet

Cecelia Lipson

Taylor Mead

Paul Morrissey

Joan Murphy

Al Stetson

M. Emmet Walsh

Sandy Duncan

Philip Bruns

Waldo Salt

Bill Walters

Jay Morran

Renee Semes

Jeffrey Walker

Mary Boylan

Marlene Clark

Paul Jasmin

Pat Ast

Randall Carver

Robert Dahdah

Trent Gough

Larry Sherman

Barbara Maggio

James Miller

Lucian Addario

William Door

Philip Smith

James Leo Herlihy

Adam Holender

Jerome Hellman

John Schlesinger

Hugh A. Robertson

John Barry

Toots Thielemans

Hal Schaffel

Ann Roth

John Robert Lloyd

Kenneth Utt

Irving Buchman

Dick Smith

Bob Grimaldi

Dick Vorisek

Pablo Ferro

Edward Swanson

Vincent Connelly

Jack Fitzstephens

Edward Carzero

Burtt Harris

Fred C. Caruso

Ed Rothkowitz

Michael Mahony

Richard C. Kratina

Nicholas Sgarro

Richard P. Cirincione

Willie Meyerhoff

Norman Leigh

Abe Seidman

Leonard Saltzberg

Willis Conner

Max Soloman

Jim Clark

Drama

Midnight Cowboy

Florin Productions

Jerome Hellman Productions

United Artists

United States of America

Potential Kermode

**"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" Shuffling, perhaps.**


One can always count on Hoffman and his ability to absorb the character he is portraying with such ease. He has a knack at portraying that deep, bronchial coughing schtick. When watching, I had to wear a surgical mask - just in case.

Voight, as usual, is magnificent as the innocent amongst the scum. Watching this wide eyed lone ranger slowly losing the tassels from his jacket is a deeply moving experience.

A word of warning, you may want to use antibacterial wipes on your tv screen after watching Hoffman here. One cannot be too careful.


- Potential Kermode

CinemaSerf

This is certainly my favourite role from Dustin Hoffman as he turns in an outstanding performance as "Ratso". He hooks up with the dapper, but out of his depth cowboy "Buck" who arrives in New York all set to be a hustler, but ends up paying his first client for the sex she's supposed to pay him for! Initially, "Ratso" fleeces this gullible guy too, but gradually the two start to depend on one and other - which is as well for "Ratso" who is clearly not long for this world. His persistent cough is being worsened by the squalid conditions in which he, and latterly, "Buck" have to live and by their poverty row existence. This is a great story and John Schlesinger tells it with some panache. The relationship between the two men is honest and decent, even though that attribute could hardly be said to apply to either of them when it comes to anyone else: "Ratso" would probably have hustled his own grandmother given the chance. Their bond feels real, plausible - unsentimental and convincing; and the Waldo Salt screenplay ensures that the dialogue - though frequently quite sparing - is both poignant and humorous.