Midnight Cowboy

Our DVD Price: £15.99 RRP: £17.99 Save £2.00 (11%)   Availability This product should be despatched within 4 days.  This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times   Earn 75 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info

Also available on... 

DVD £11.69 

RRP £12.99 You save £1.30 (10%)

View in full detail

Film Description

An amiable country boy heads to New York, aiming to make his living as a male prostitute. John Barry's score and Harry Nilsson's songs have enjoyed a successful afterlife that occasionally threatens to eclipse this tender, funny, and ultimately noble film, but the performances of the two leads, and Schlesinger's Oscar and Bafta winning direction, give it a compassionate humanity rarely seen.

Film Information

DVD Extras

2 discs; metal steel book edition. Special features (TBC) include enhanced picture quality, commentaries, restored scenes, documentaries, and a collectable booklet.

Technical Details

Reviews & Articles

Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review

Review by Dan Macklin on 6th April 2004

Midnight Cowboy takes a look at the seamier side of life in New York, where exiled Southerner Joe Buck (Voight) is aiming to make his living as a 'stud'. Patently too moral, lacking in self-confidence and burdened by events from his past (seen sporadically in flashback) to make this dream as successful as he would like, he is forced instead to co-habit cheaply with crippled scrounger 'Ratso' Rizzo (Hoffman). Together they plan an eventual relocation to Florida, which inspires one of the film's most memorable scenes, whereby Ratso's sun-kissed thoughts are intercut with Voight bungling an 'assignation' to a musical backdrop of John Barry's evocative Florida Fantasy. Ultimately, events conspire to force this dream to become a reality of sorts...but will they get there?

This was the first X-rated film ever to scoop the Oscar for Best Picture. It has dated in places, but is nonethless an intriguing snapshot of late '60s America and is sensitively acted by Voight and Hoff man, not to mention Barry's brilliant score.

View more reviews by Dan Macklin

Browse all Film Reviews

Collections & Lists

This film is part of the following Film Collections

Academy Award Best Picture Winners

Including: A Man For All Seasons, All About Eve, All Quiet On The Western Front (1930), All The Kings Men, Amadeus, American Beauty, An American In Paris, Annie Hall, Around The World In Eighty Days, Ben Hur.

Road Movies

Including: Badlands, Baise-Moi, Bonnie And Clyde, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, Central Station, Convoy, Dead End (2003), Detour (1945), Dogma, Drôle de Félix.

View all collections

This film is part of the following Customer Film Lists

An assortment by Jan Morris

Create your own Film List!

Customers who bought this also bought...

Recommendations from fellow customers

Seven Samurai

by Akira Kurosawa

Breathless (Godard, 1959)

by Jean-Luc Godard

Manhattan

by Woody Allen

Fellinis 8 1/2

by Federico Fellini

Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi

by Godfrey Reggio

Other films by...

More films directed by John Schlesinger

Terminus

A Kind Of Loving

Billy Liar

Darling

Far From The Madding Crowd

View more >

More films starring Dustin Hoffman

The Graduate

by Mike Nichols

Little Big Man

by Arthur Penn

Sleepers

by Barry Levinson

All The Presidents Men

by Alan J. Pakula

Mad City

by Costa-Gavras

View more >

More films starring Jon Voight

Deliverance

by John Boorman

The General (Boorman)

by John Boorman

Enemy Of The State

by Tony Scott

Runaway Train

by Andrei Konchalovsky

Catch 22

by Mike Nichols

View more >

For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk

© 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail