Academy Awards, USA 1973
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Maurice Jarre (music) Alan Bergman (lyrics) Marilyn Bergman For the song "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey". |
National General Pictures
Directed by John Huston
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Archive Collection)
Paul Newman walks into a dusty western town and after killing every outlaw decides he will become the law "west of the Pecos". Soon every hotel, saloon and establishment in town bears his name. Victoria Principal is his teenage girlfriend who stands by his side. Roddy McDowall is a lawyer who schemes to take everything away from him. Stacy Keach has a memorable, if brief, role as an outlaw named "Bad Bob", who literally ends up with a hole through his body. Director John Huston is also briefly glimpsed as Grizzly Adams. Jacqueline Bisset is Newman's grown-up daughter who acts a lot like him. Ava Gardner is basically herself, Newman's idolized love interest from afar. Absolutely insane western from Huston and Newman. The Coen Brothers went on to make an entire career out of this style.
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