Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Midnight Cowboy rates landmark status as not only a multi Oscar winner but the first major studio production to be branded with an X rating. Voight is incredible as Joe Buck, a naive Texan who is convinced he can make a living as a hustler to old lonely rich women. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant as Ratso Rizzo, the seedy, crippled con artist who becomes Joe’s only friend. Between the two down-and-out characters, cameos are played by New York’s mod squad of screaming Sixties superstars Viva, Ultra Violet, International Velvet, Taylor Mead and Paul Morriessey.