Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
Gregory Sierra
- Chavarin
- (as Gregg Sierra)
Bruce Davis Bayne
- Bank Customer
- (uncredited)
Poupée Bocar
- Girl in Bar
- (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth
- Man
- (uncredited)
Ken Freehill
- Bank Customer
- (uncredited)
Terrence Malick
- Worksman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe movie's publicity still with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin was photographed by British photographer Terry O'Neill and also appears on the jacket of O'Neill's 2003 compilation coffee-table book "Celebrity." In the book, O'Neill recounts how when he arrived on the set to shoot his publicity stills, Lee Marvin was hungover and in a foul mood. Most of the production personnel were steering clear of him. When O'Neill gingerly approached Marvin and introduced himself, Marvin asked, "Are you English?" What O'Neill didn't know at the time was that Marvin was a lifelong Anglophile--he LOVED the British. After that brief encounter, Marvin's mood changed and, according to O'Neill, he couldn't have been more cooperative for the rest of his assignment.
- GoofsJim asks Adelita if she's ever been out of the country, and she says she's only been to a Catholic school in San Antonio. Yet she has a thick, mid-Atlantic, prep-school accent, without a trace of the south or Spanish in it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000)
- SoundtracksPocket Money
Written and Performed by Carole King
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A Confused Movie
Throughout this thoroughly confused movie, I kept waiting for the point to become clear. Is it an innocent cowboy against the the corrupt cattle barons movie? Is it a buddy movie? A character study? What's the point?
Paul Newman seems to be playing a slightly retarded rancher, with an accent that is neither consistent nor believable. Lee Marvin plays the only character that is at least interesting, even though it's not at all clear just what his purpose in the movie is. Strother Martin is just painful to watch.
Mexicans may want to avoid this movie. It contains enough slurs to keep the producers in law suits for a decade if it had been produced in the more politically correct 90's.
It was a struggle to stay awake through this movie. I sure hope the book was better.
Paul Newman seems to be playing a slightly retarded rancher, with an accent that is neither consistent nor believable. Lee Marvin plays the only character that is at least interesting, even though it's not at all clear just what his purpose in the movie is. Strother Martin is just painful to watch.
Mexicans may want to avoid this movie. It contains enough slurs to keep the producers in law suits for a decade if it had been produced in the more politically correct 90's.
It was a struggle to stay awake through this movie. I sure hope the book was better.
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- $2,700,000 (estimated)
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