A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 28 wins & 16 nominations total
Gilman Rankin
- Woodsy Niles - Texas
- (as Gil Rankin)
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- TriviaBefore Dustin Hoffman auditioned for this film, he knew that the all-American image that he carried after "The Graduate" could easily cost him the job. To prove that he could play Rizzo, he asked the auditioning film executive to meet him on a street corner in Manhattan. He dressed in filthy rags. The executive arrived at the appointed corner and waited, barely noticing the "beggar" not 10 feet away who was accosting people for spare change. The beggar finally walked up to him and revealed his true identity.
- GoofsWhen Joe Buck is hungry and destitute, he stops in a diner and sits with a weird mother and son. The son looks at the tracking camera twice before dialogue resumes.
- Quotes
Ratso Rizzo: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
- Alternate versionsABC edited 25 minutes from this film for its 1974 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #2.2 (1972)
Featured review
Dreams Don't Come True...
Washing pots inside a diner's not for you, there's so much talent, you have bursting to come through, a new outfit is acquired, naive cowboy's now attired, with a ticket to New York, where dreams come true. Alas you're business acumen is undeveloped, cash not moving in directions, that you had hoped, as a male prostitute, you have no clients, you're destitute, there are memories of the past, that you evoke.
As good as it was all those years ago, and perhaps even better as it's aged, with two great central performances, although Dustin Hoffman is outstanding as the luckless 'Ratso' befriended, by the equally unfortunate Joe Buck, who's also rather gullible.
As good as it was all those years ago, and perhaps even better as it's aged, with two great central performances, although Dustin Hoffman is outstanding as the luckless 'Ratso' befriended, by the equally unfortunate Joe Buck, who's also rather gullible.
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- Xstal
- Feb 10, 2023
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- Polnočni kavboj
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- $3,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $44,785,053
- Gross worldwide
- $44,802,577
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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