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Released
1963 · FILM

Hud

A reckless young man schemes to take control of his family’s Texas ranch, sparking a bitter showdown with his upright father while his admiring nephew confronts the cost of his law‑bending ambition.

“The man with the barbed-wire soul.”

Directed by
Martin Ritt
Written by
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr
Color
Black & White
Runtime
112 min
DramaWestern

Synopsis

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man whose actions bring harm to everything and everyone around him. He serves as a representation of alienated youth, driven by a desire for excitement without concern for the consequences. A bitter conflict exists between Hud and his stern, principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew, Lon, initially admires Hud's dishonest methods, but eventually becomes disillusioned by Hud's reckless amorality. In a world divided between those who take and those who are taken from, Hud is a winner. He is a cheat, and as he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Frank BrachtShot by James Wong HoweScored by Elmer Bernstein

Box Office

1963 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$2.5M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Wildeste unter Tausendde
  • Le Plus Sauvage d'entre tousfr

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