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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...

Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper , the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip L.A. private dick whose business has gotten so bad that he's re-using his coffee grounds. At the suggestion of his friend, attorney Albert Graves ( Arthur Hill ), the detective takes on the investigation of...

Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice . Freely adapted from a novel by Thomas B. Costain , the film casts Newman as Basil, a first century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery by his wicked uncle. Transported to Rome, Basil manages to enjoy a measure of freedom when his captors discover his sculpting talents; he also marries another slave, the demure Deborra ( Pier Angeli ) and dallies with the sensuous Helena ( Virginia Mayo ), the mercenary...