Midnight Cowboy

From director John Schlesinger, from Waldo Salt’s screenplay and the James Leo Herlihy novel, the captivating opening, shot on location in Big Spring, Texas, introducing Jon Voight as Joe Buck, and Fred Neil’s song performed by Harry Nilsson, in the 1969 Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, also starring Dustin Hoffman.

Joe (Jon Voight) failing further as a hustler in New York, counting his dwindling money and meeting Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, Voight’s fellow Best Actor nominee, in his first scene), his sticky nickname provided by Jonathan Kramer, followed by the famous mostly accidental taxi scene, in John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, 1969.