A period story about a small northwest mountain village where stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie run the bordello, the production suffers from overlength; also a serious effort at moody photography which backfires into pretentiousness.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The story of a gambling man and a hustling lady and the empire they fashioned from the wilderness.
1971 · 2h · R
Drama, Western
Directed by
Robert Altman
Overview
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Director and cast
- Robert Altman Director
- Warren Beatty as John McCabe
- Julie Christie as Constance Miller
- René Auberjonois as Sheehan
- William Devane as The Lawyer
- John Schuck as Smalley
- Corey Fischer as Mr. Elliot
- Bert Remsen as Bart Coyle
- Shelley Duvall as Ida Coyle
- Keith Carradine as Cowboy
- Michael Murphy as Eugene Sears
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Still Robert Altman's best moment, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism.
A pioneering film, in both senses of the word, and one of the key works in the American cinema of the 1970s.
I don't automatically object to contemporary allusions, but I prefer to find them myself, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller is so busy pointing them out to us that the effect is to undercut its narrative drive and the dignity of its fiction.
The movie haunts you like a ballad whose tune you remember but whose words hang just beyond reach. And like listening to a ballad, we know the outcome of the events we're watching was foretold long ago, but we're helpless to do anything but surrender.
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