Film
McCabe and Mrs Miller
- Director
- Robert Altman
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 120 mins
Robert Altman‘s decidedly non-heroic 1971 western stars a whiskery Warren Beatty as gambler and braggart McCabe who forms an alliance with whorehouse madam Mrs Miller (Julie Christie). Alas, she remains stubbornly resistant to his amorous advances, preferring the company of her opium pipe.
Altman’s impressively bleak take on the Old West upends genre clichés, with a trio of Leonard Cohen songs adding to the general gloom. Its 50th anniversary return to the screen is part of Cinema Rediscovered.
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