Which 1969 film features the line 'I'm walking here!'?

Which 1969 film features the line “I’m walking here!”? The answer is Midnight Cowboy.

Directed by John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy follows Joe Buck, a naïve Texan who travels to New York believing he can make a living as a male escort. Jon Voight plays Joe, while Dustin Hoffman plays Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, a sickly con man who becomes his reluctant friend. Their unstable partnership gives the film its emotional center.

The famous line occurs when Joe and Ratso cross a busy Manhattan street and a taxi nearly hits them. Hoffman’s character shouts, “I’m walking here!” The moment is widely associated with improvisation: the traffic interruption was reportedly not planned, and Hoffman responded in character. Whether every detail of the story is remembered consistently, the scene became one of the most recognizable bits of dialogue in American film.

Midnight Cowboy was rated X in the United States upon release because of its sexual content and adult themes, yet it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It remains the only X-rated film to win that award, although its rating was later changed to R. The line is often misquoted as “We’re walking here!”