Paul Newman in his first ascendancy (1963), as the favorite antihero of the Kennedy era. Martin Ritt directed, putting a little too much dust in the dust bowl for my taste. With an Oscar-winning Patricia Neal, an impressionable Brandon de Wilde, and a stern Melvyn Douglas. Adapted by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank from Larry McMurtry's novel
Horseman Pass By, with cinematography by James Wong Howe.
By
Dave Kehr