Hud
1963, NR, 112 min.
Directed by Martin Ritt, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon de Wilde.

Multi-award-winning classic about a family of Texas men (and the housekeeper) is an eternal favorite and a fantastic ensemble piece. Years ago in these pages, Matthew McConaughey described Hud as his favorite film because it shows the “likenesses and differences of generations, how they say the same thing, each using a different vocabulary. Hud does that with three generations.”

This article appears in June 21 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.