Sydney Pollack directs Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, and Charles Bronson in this sizzling Hollywood classic, adapted by Francis Ford Coppola from the classic play by Tennessee Williams.
Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate, a railroad official with a pocketful of pink slips for the rail yard employees. When Legate appears on the doorstep of Alva Starr, the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans but nowhere to go, their ensuing affair enrages Alva’s distant, uncaring mother and ignites a town’s revenge.
Unbridled passion and fiery emotion pours out of the screen in this remarkable Pollack feature, also featuring a jazzy score from Kenyon Hopkins.
Special Features
• NEW Audio Commentary by filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat
• Sydney Pollack on American Cinema – a retrospective career interview with director Sydney Pollack
• Natalie Wood – A Tribute by Peter Bogdanovich – featurette
• Interview on Natalie Wood with author Gavin Lambert
This 50s Western stars Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Diana Lynn, directed by four-time Oscar-nominated director William A. Wellman.
With the ranch’s cattle falling prey to the elusive killer cat, Curt Bridges and his snowbound ranching family are forced to confront the beast to save the family’s herd.
Co-produced by John Wayne, the film is based on the 1949 novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and makes startling use of colour in cinematography by William H. Clothier (Wings).
A “beautiful and splendidly haunting Eugene O’Neill-style drama …It’s a really rich and strange movie, all deep, brooding emotion, mysterious atmosphere and astounding show of visual flair.” – Derek Winnert
Special Features
• Audio Commentary by the director’s son William A. Wellman Jr., actor Tab Hunter and author Frank Thompson
• The Making of Track of the Cat – 4-part documentary
• Robert Mitchum, The Reluctant Star – documentary (1991)
Nominated for seven Academy Awards (and winning three), HUD stars Paul Newman as the titular bad-boy cowboy, directed by the legendary Martin Ritt (The Molly Maguires).
Hud Bannon, a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father and his hero-worshipping nephew, is an amoral, cold-hearted creature. When hoof-and-mouth disease shows up in one of the elder Bannon’s cows, the rebellious Hud and his respectable father find themselves at odds with each other.
Filmed on location in Texas, actors Patricia Neal (Breakfast At Tiffany’s) and Melvyn Douglas (I Never Sang For My Father) both won Oscars for their performances.
Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike on release, Hud is a must-see Western, packed with conflict and startling cinematography.
Special Features
• NEW Audio Commentary by screenwriter / film historian C. Courtney Joyner and film historian / author Julie Kirgo
• NEW Interview with actress / filmmaker Ileanna Douglas, granddaughter of Melvyn Douglasr