Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

2022
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

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Jon Voight in Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)

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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.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

300

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations

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Jon Voight

Self

Waldo Salt

Self
(archive footage)
(voice)

Jennifer Salt

Self - Actor, Screewriter…

John Schlesinger

Self
(archive footage)

Bob Balaban

Self - Actor, Director

Adam Holender

Self - Cinematographer
(archive footage)
(voice)

Lucy Sante

Self - Author, 'Low Life'
(as Luc Sante)

Ian Buruma

Self - Author…

Dustin Hoffman

Self
(archive footage)
(voice)

Edmund White

Self - Author, 'A Boys Own Story'

Marsha P. Johnson

Self - Activist, Murdered July 6, 1992
(archive footage)
(credit only)

Charles Kaiser

Self - Author, 'The Gay Metropolis'

Mort Sahl

Self
(archive footage)

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)

J. Hoberman

Self - Film Critic

Director
- Nancy Buirski
Writers
- Nancy Buirski
- Glenn Frankel
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EPILOGUE: "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."

Connections
Features Straight Shooting (1917)

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Featured review

8/10

Mean Streets

Immense insights into the filmmaking world as it turned on a fulcrum in the heavy and turbulent days of the making of Midnight Cowboy (1969) and an explanation of how a gay British filmmaker could make a wildly successful and popular X-rated film about a bisexual cowboy hustler and his tramp friend as they battled to survive on the dirty streets of New York City. Jon Voight provides essential commentary and the chaotic zeitgeist of the late 60s is carefully explored.

Film lovers will appreciate the insider's perspective and the tales about the production and others will gain a keen sense of the volatility of American culture during those years.