- Status: Completed
- Score: 7.8/10
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Country: USA
- Year: 1969
- Duration: 113 min
- Genres: Drama,
- Production:
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York City for the first time. Preening himself as a real “hustler”, he finds that he is the one getting “hustled” until he teams up with down-and-out but resilient outcast Ratso Rizzo. The initial “country cousin meets city cousin” relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Ruth White, Gilman Rankin, T. Tom Marlow, Al Scott, J.T. Masters, Jon Voight, John McGiver, Barnard Hughes, Jennifer Salt, Gary Owens, George Eppersen, Linda Davis,
