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Hud

Hud

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 28, 1963

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Drama, Western

User Score

73%

Original Title

Hud

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

Martin Ritt

Budget

$2,500,000

Revenue

$10,000,000

Description

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."