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
It is so peculiar and doesn't seem to care that it strays from the usual western, that therein lies its charm.
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.
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