Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy follows Joe Buck, a naive young Texan who travels to New York City dreaming of becoming a paid companion to wealthy women, only to find survival far more difficult than imagined. He forms an unlikely and deeply moving friendship with Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo, a small-time hustler scraping by in the urban underbelly. Their bond becomes a powerful story of loneliness, desperation, and human connection against the backdrop of a gritty, unforgiving city.

• Only X-rated film to ever win Best Picture Oscar.
• Dustin Hoffman improvised the famous 'I'm walkin' here!' line.
• Jon Voight beat out many actors including Robert Redford.
• Director John Schlesinger is British, not American.
• Film was later rerated from X to R in 1971.

• I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!
• I'm gonna get me a rich woman, a real one.
• Hey, I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one helluva stud.
• Everybody's talking at me, I don't hear a word they're saying.
• Florida, boy. That's where I got a future.