“It doesn’t take long to kill things, not it like takes to grow em’.”
Homer Bannon, dialogue taken from the 1963 movie, ‘Hud’
Paul Newman gave easily his greatest performance as Hud Bannen, the hard-fighting, hard-drinking, womanising ne’er-do-well, who casts a malign shadow over the lives of his family and their housekeeper on a Texas ranch in the 1963 movie, “Hud.” Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel “Horseman Pass By,” this is one of the finest examples of American Cinema in the 1960’s, not least in its depiction of father-son conflict, but also in the way in which one man can profoundly influence–for the worse–the lives of those around him.
When I stumbled on this this old corral in Southern Utah, I couldn’t help but think of the cinematography that helped to shape this great, great movie. If you haven’t seen the movie, you should–and the book is even better than the movie.
The wind blows through an abandoned ranch in Ferron, UT.
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