Rough Trade, Big City: The Legacy of 'Midnight Cowboy'
Midnight Cowboy, 1969. (Photo by United Artists / Courtesy of Getty Images) With Shooting “Midnight Cowboy”, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and film historian Glenn Frankel completes a trilogy of behind-the-scenes accounts of cinematic cowboy ballads. Of course, technically speaking, John Schlesinger’s 1969 Best Picture winner isn’t a western like High Noon or The Searchers; its 10-gallon-hat hero Joe Buck styles himself after Gary Cooper and John Wayne, but he’s shooting blanks. Played behind blue eyes by a 29-year-old Jon Voigt, Joe is a rootless dreamer, decamping fro...
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