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| Limb & Spinal Conditions: Minor Films no photo.
| Title | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Limb | | Country | USA | | Length | 113 | | Genre | Drama | | Rating | 5 | | Director | John Schlesinger
| | Cast | Jon Voight Dustin Hoffman
| | Notes | From James Leo Herlihy's novel. A young man, Joe, who has a misplaced sense of his own attractiveness goes to New York with hopes of making a mint by being a gigolo. He's quickly disabused and is 'rescued' by a disabled petty thief who has earlier conned him. Ratzo, the thief, has more wrong with him than his obvious limp but he offers Joe shelter and companionship. Both are lonely men and a bond forms between them. But in New York they're barely able to hold their heads above water, or even keep warm. Just when Joe has latched onto what might be a steady income from sleeping with rich women Ratzo's health goes downhill. Joes decides to take him to Miami where it will be warm. But as the bus they're on arrives in Florida Joe discovers that the sleeping Ratzo is actually dead. We don't know whether Joe will keep to his promise to do real work but he's come a long way from the bus journey which took him from Texas to New York. No doctors, no heroics, no cures; resolutely stays in the gutter until coach ride to Florida, and Heaven.
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