Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
- small town
- texas
- anti hero
- dark comedy
- gold rush
- gold mine
- marriage of convenience
- outlaw
- battle of the sexes
- 1860s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Veronica Cartwright — Hermine
- Richard Bradford — Sheriff Kyle
- Jeff Morris — Big Abe
- Danny DeVito — Hog
- Tracey Walter — Coogan
- Gerald H. Reynolds — Polty
- Luana Anders — Mrs. Anderson
- George W. Smith — Mr. Anderson
- Lucy Lee Flippin — Mrs. Haber
- Ed Begley Jr. — Mr. Haber
- Maureen Byrnes — Mrs. Warren
- Directed
- Jack Nicholson
- Written
- Alan Mandell, Al Ramrus, John Herman Shaner, Charles Shyer
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 173 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
