Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
- 2022
- 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
306
YOUR RATING
Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
Photos
Waldo Salt
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
John Schlesinger
- Self
- (archive footage)
Adam Holender
- Self - Cinematographer
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Lucy Sante
- Self - Author, 'Low Life'
- (as Luc Sante)
Dustin Hoffman
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Marsha P. Johnson
- Self - Activist, Murdered July 6, 1992
- (archive footage)
- (credit only)
Joseph N. Welch
- Self - U.S. Army Chief Counsel
- (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Sen. Joseph McCarthy)
Roy M. Cohn
- Self
- (archive footage)
Charles Socarides
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Dr. Charles Socarides)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEPILOGUE: "On a budget of $3.6 million, Midnight Cowboy (1969) grossed $44.8 million. John Schlesinger won the Academy Award® for Best Director over Costa-Gavras, George Roy Hill, Arthur Penn and Sydney Pollack. Waldo Salt won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay. John Schlesinger went on to make films in America and abroad, working again with Dustin Hoffman on the highly successful Marathon Man (1976). Jon Voight won an Academy Award® for Best Actor in Coming Home (1978), written by Waldo Salt. Jennifer Salt retired from acting and became a successful screenwriter like her father. She and Jon Voight bump into each other at the neighborhood Hollywood deli. James Leo Herlihy contracted AIDS in 1992. A year later, at the age of 66, he took his own life. Midnight Cowboy (1969)'s X rating was eventually changed to an R without altering any of the films content."
- ConnectionsFeatures Straight Shooting (1917)
Featured review
Using the currency of the moment to tie in other trendy things.. A stockbroker mentality. Where was the "Midnight Cowboy" stuff? They took a short interview with Jon Voigt and spliced it up and inserted a bit every 15 minutes.. And there's one old Dustin Hoffman audio they used.. I'm a left-winger, and this trendy justice whorior thing just bugged me. They are just making money off the latest thing that makes money. Nothing else.
It's a great movie, but I would have loved to have heard more interviews, more archives.. I don't need some 24-year old to explain the movie to me. It was nice to have some audio from the writer, who has been forgotten in cinema.
It's a great movie, but I would have loved to have heard more interviews, more archives.. I don't need some 24-year old to explain the movie to me. It was nice to have some audio from the writer, who has been forgotten in cinema.
- MortSahlFan
- Dec 7, 2023
- Permalink
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La leyenda del cowboy de medianoche
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,124
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,734
- Jun 25, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $55,124
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
Top Gap
By what name was Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022) officially released in India in English?
Answer