I got this damn thing all figured out…We ain’t gonna have to steal no more, that’s what I’m tryin’ to tell ya.
I’ve got eight bucks in my damn pockets, twenty more come Thursday. We’re gonna be ridin’ easy before
very long, I’m gonna tell ya. I mean, there must be an easier way of makin’ a living than this.
Hell, with all that money what do we got to stay around here for? We got places to go, right?
~John Voight as Joe Buck, lines taken from the movie, ‘Midnight Cowboy’
One of America’s Top 100 Movies, Midnight Cowboy (1969), portrayed the unlikely companionship and poignant tragic drama of two homeless, down-and-out, anti-hero drifters who are powerfully bonded together in a tale resembling Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
This cinematic masterpiece was powerful, moving, raw, emotional, compassionate…and rated X for its subject matter.
Walking past the historic Cozy Theatre on Main Street at sundown, I wondered to myself if Midnight Cowboy ever made it to the big screen in this tiny little town in northern Minnesota–or if it would have been just too much for this small town to handle.
The motion picture, Midnight Cowboy, was notable for being the first and only X-rated major motion picture of its time. Midnight Cowboy’s initial X-rating was later downgraded to R when the film was re-released in late 1970 only to receive the Best Picture Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Cozy Theatre on Mainstreet, Northern MN
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