McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Name: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Released: 1971

Robert Altman

New Hollywood capitalism and corporate greed prostitution and morality entrepreneurship and ambition frontier settlement and civilization love and compromise

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Synopsis

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Year1971

CountryUnited States

DirectorRobert Altman

MovementNew Hollywood

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I love Westerns. I always loved McCabe & Mrs. Miller. It’s probably my favorite. [...] I really like the idea of shooting in that time period and having a sort of Altman-esque soundtrack with overlapping dialogue.