A mildly diverting modern western and buddy-buddy movie.
Pocket Money (1972)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:3
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A cattleman in need of cash goes on a bull buying trip to Mexico for a very shady character. There he meets an old pal with a few schemes still left up his sleeve.
Starring: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Hector Elizondo, Christine Belford
Starring: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Hector Elizondo, Christine Belford, Wayne Rogers, Strother Martin, Kelly Jean Peters, Fred Graham, Gregory Sierra
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Producer: John Foreman
Composer: Alex North
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Reviews for Pocket Money
The lazily incongruous character studies of naive Newman, hard-drinking, slow-witted Marvin, and a strong support cast, come from a script by Terrence Malick.
It is so peculiar and doesn't seem to care that it strays from the usual western, that therein lies its charm.
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