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Martin Ritt’s 1963 HUD is a Texas set family drama based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. Paul Newman is the alienated son of rancher Melvin Douglas and the script sets up their conflict rather baldly as good versus evil. But Newman, even playing a real bastard, has so much audience appeal that despite the awful things he does and says they adore him. This was more or less the beginning of the period in the ’60’s when anti-heroes were in vogue. It is also the movie that transformed him from sta...
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