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| | Hud (1963) |
 | | Hud (1963) is the story of the title character - a young Texas rancher named Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), the son of moral patriarch, law-abiding cattleman Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) in modern day Texas. |
 | | Hud is an anti-hero, selfish, cocky, amoral, unscrupulous, crude, hard-drinking, irresponsible, hedonistic, and known as a "Cadillac cowboy." He conspicuously parks his pink convertible outside homes of married women. |
 | | Hud wants to sell them before they can be condemned by government inspectors: "You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?" Homer rejects selling them: "That would run the risk of starting an epidemic." Hud replies: |
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