MIDNIGHT COWBOY A United Artists Release. With Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; screenplay by Waldo Salt; based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy; cinematography by Adam Holender; music supervised by John Barry; directed by John Schlesinger.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY is an ugly picture, and experience that can be likened only to having one’s nose rubbed in the proverbial “it.” Yet it’s an ultimately beautiful film on many levels — outstanding performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, superb direction by John Schlesinger, and a theme which powerfully comes across, despite the ugliness of some of the plot incidents.