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Urban cowboy

Bud Davis, a Texas oil refinery worker, meets and falls in love with Sissy at Gilley's, a popular country-western nightclub in Houston. However, their relationship becomes endangered when a mechanical bull-riding ex-convict schemes to steal Sissy's heart.

Main Author: Burns, Ralph (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Charlie Daniels Band (Performer)
Other Authors: Bridges, James (Screenwriter), Latham, Aaron (Screenwriter), Travolta, John, 1954- (Actor), Winger, Debra, 1955- (Actor), Glenn, Scott, 1942- (Actor), Smith-Osborne, Madolyn, 1957- (Actor), Corbin, Barry, 1940- (Actor), Huckabee, Cooper, 1951- (Actor), Gammon, James (Actor), Villalobos, Reynaldo (director of photography.), Gresham, Gloria (Costume designer), Gilley, Mickey (Performer), Lee, Johnny, 1946- (Performer), Raitt, Bonnie (Performer)
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
French
Portuguese
Published: Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2002]
Edition: Widescreen version.
Series: Widescreen DVD collection.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Bull riding > Texas > Houston > Drama.
Houston (Tex.) > Drama.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Romance films.
Western films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Summary: Bud Davis, a Texas oil refinery worker, meets and falls in love with Sissy at Gilley's, a popular country-western nightclub in Houston. However, their relationship becomes endangered when a mechanical bull-riding ex-convict schemes to steal Sissy's heart.
Item Description: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.
Based on the story by Aaron Latham.
Special unrated features include outtakes and rehearsal footage.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (134 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 cm
Format: DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; widescreen version (16:9).
Audience: MPAA rating: PG.
Production Credits: Music score by Ralph Burns ; executive producer C.O. Erickson ; edited by David Rawlins ; production designer, Stephen Grimes ; director of photography, Ray Villalobos ; costume designer, Gloria Gresham.
ISBN: 9780792182221
0792182227
Author Notes: Television and motion picture actor John Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey on February 18, 1954. He dropped out of school when he was 16 to become an actor.

Travolta starred as Vinnie Barbarino in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, and has appeared in a wide array of movies, including Carrie, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Saturday Night Fever (for which he received an Oscar nomination), Grease, Urban Cowboy, Look Who's Talking, Pulp Fiction, Face\Off, A Civil Action and The General's Daughter.

An avid aviation enthusiast, in 1997 he published a book titled Propeller One-Way Night Coach.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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