McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The screenplay by Altman and Brian McKay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. Altman referred to it as an "anti-Western" film because it ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions. It was filmed in British Columbia, Canada in the fall and winter of 1970, and premiered on June 24, 1971.
Plot
In 1902, a mysterious gambler named John McCabe arrives in the unincorporated boomtown of Presbyterian Church, Washington, named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused chapel. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic inhabitants, thanks to his aggressive personality and persistent rumors that he is actually a notorious gunfighter known as "Pudgy" McCabe.
More details
| author | Robert Altman |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Washington |
| director | Robert Altman |
| editor | Lou Lombardo |
| events | gambling prostitution |
| genre | western |
| keywords | boomtown brothel build business partner chapel church cockney derringer gamble gunfighter hunting rifle kill learn mine opium opium den pimp run shotgun small business turn wash zinc |
| musicBy | Leonard Cohen |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress |
| producer | David Foster Mitchell Brower |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | Vancouver |