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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1969
Joe Buck and Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo are two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy
Special features: audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman; short film "The crowd around the cowboy" (1969) made on location for Midnight cowboy; trailer; "Waldo Salt : a screenwriter's journey" (1990) an Academy Award nominated documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann; Michael Childers discusses photographs from candid images he shot during production; Adam Holender discusses his work on the film (Feb. 2018); two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight cowboy; interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost show from 1970; Jon Voight's original screen test; interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles with excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman
Director of photography, Adam Holender; editor, Hugh A. Robertson; musical supervision, John Barry
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles
MPAA rating: R
Blu-ray; widescreen (aspect ratio, 1.85:1) presentation; LPCM 1.0 monaural and DTS-HD master audio 5.1 ; requires Blu-ray player
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired
Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium