MIDNIGHT COWBOY (dvd) *NEW* 2-disc collector and 50 similar items

Brand new factory sealed 2-disc dvd collector's set is no longer being manufactured. Foil slip-sleeve case is brilliant and wreaks havoc with the photo. Readily available new in all other versions except this one. Joe Buck (Voight) is six feet tall and has the kind of innocence that preserves dumb good looks. Joe Buck fancies himself a cowboy, but his spurs were earned while riding a gas range in a Houston hamburger joint. Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), his buddy and part-time pimp from the Bronx, is short, gimpy, and verminous. Although they are a comparitively bizarre couple, they go unnoticed when they arrive at one of those hallucinogenic "Village" parties where the only thing straight is the booze that no one drinks. Everybody is too busy smoking pot, popping pills, and being chic. Joe Buck, ever-hopeful stud, drawls: "I think we better find someone an' tell 'em were here." Trying to tell someone that he's there is the story of Joe Buck's life--twenty-eight-years of anxiety and dispossesion fenced off by trashy conquests that always, somehow, leave him a little lonelier than he was before. Joe is a funny, dim-witted variation on the lonely, homosexual dream-hero who used to wander disguised through so much drama and literature associated with the 1950's. A Texan who came to New York to make his fortune as a stud service to all the lonely rich ladies. Instead, he winds up a half-hearted 42nd Street hustler whose first and only friend is a lame, largely ineffectual con artist. Originally rated X, it has since been re-evaluated as an R rated movie for this day and age. It must be noted as at the time, this was the first X-rated movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.