Hud
The man with the barbed-wire soul.
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches.Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences.There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer.
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $10M
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Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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Box Office & Release
Hud returned 4.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $3M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $10M
- Release date
- May 24, 1963
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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