Goin' South
723
Western. Comedy
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. Julia Tate needs a man to help her work her mine and marries him. The sheriff makes it very clear to Moon what the consequences of his leaving Julia will be. The two begin to try to form ... [+]
Author | Review | ||
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United States | Newsweek | "It turns Western conventions on their heads not out of satirical anger but simply to charm the pants off the audience." | POS |
United States | TV Guide | "Although the premise of 'Goin' South' is clever, the story is unbelievable" | NEG |
Canada | The Globe and Mail | "Neither Nicholson nor the talented Miss Steenburgen, in her film debut, could rise above the patched-together script." | NEU |
United States | The Washington Post | "Jack Nicholson set out to make himself a 'Treasure of Sierra Madre', but since he is both the director and star of what he came up with no one apparently told him that Goin' South isn't it" | NEG |
United States | Variety | "Picture starts off promisingly enough with Nicholson as a hapless outlaw (...) But it never jells" | NEU |
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