# X-Rated: Midnight Cowboy (1969) and the Catholic Film Fest That Loved It

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Published: 2025-12-15T04:03:10+00:00
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This week on Morally Offensive, everybody’s talkin’ (okay its just Kevin and Bill) with singer/songwriter (and former film student) Stefanie Joyce about the ONLY X-Rated Film to win Best Picture, Midnight Cowboy. The film features a young Jon Voight as an aspiring sex worker who runs from his past in a small Texas town, toward the bright city lights of Broadway and 42nd St. While unsuccessfully attempting to get into the game, he runs into Ratso Rizzo (a young Dustin Hoffman), a small-time hustler who gets by on petty theft and squating in an abandoned apartment building. The crew uncovers the shocking facts surrounding the film being screened at an international Cahtolic Film Festival, while simultanesouly receiving an A-IV rating (Adults with Reservations - so, not QUITE ”C” or ”O” - our bad). Diversions including pocketing cold cuts at swanky parties, Meat-and-Threes, Flannery O’Connor, Baby Bob Balaban, and the ongoing debate about THAT scene.

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