In May of 1962, when Martin Ritt arrived in the Texas Panhandle town of Claude to begin filming Hud, he may have sensed that his career was about to change. Hud would be Ritt’s ninth feature but his first personal statement, and it demonstrates a clear control over his material that he maintained throughout the rest of his work. The film would go on to earn seven Oscar nominations—including one for Ritt—and win three, for actors Patricia Neal an…
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