Films Of Paul Newman, The: Movies

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks . Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to present to corporate executive Sidney J. Mussberger ( Paul Newman ). As he makes his way up to Mussberger's office, the company president Waring Hudsucker ( Charles Durning ) is on his way down -- through...

Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth , Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry 's novel, -Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon ( Newman ) is a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer ( Melvyn Douglas ) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon ( Brandon DeWilde ). Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted creature; his father...

Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the story. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and ever since has straddled two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, Newman is subject to the racial bias of banker Fredric March and his snooty wife Barbara Rush . In truth, March is an embezzler, and has no reason to feel superior to anyone. This fact comes out when the coach...