Hud Blu-ray

Release Year: 1963

Runtime: 112 min

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell

Studios: Paramount Pictures

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio excerpts from a 1974 American Film Institute seminar with director Martin Ritt.

New interview with actor Sally Field

conducted by author Isaac Butler, on Ritt and Hud.

New interview with cinematographer Roger Deakins on director of photography James Wong Howe

Episode from 1994 of Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, featuring actor Paul Newman.

PLUS: An essay by author and film scholar Gabriel Miller

and a 1963 interview with Howe.

Technical Specifications:

• Black & White
• Monaural
• 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio