Synopsis
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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Cast
- Warren BeattyJohn McCabe
- Julie ChristieConstance Miller
- René AuberjonoisSheehan
- William DevaneThe Lawyer
- John SchuckSmalley
- Corey FischerMr. Elliot
- Bert RemsenBart Coyle
- Shelley DuvallIda Coyle
- Keith CarradineCowboy
- Michael MurphyEugene Sears
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
Still Robert Altman's best moment, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
In McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Altman uses a tactfully unobtrusive camera, a distinctive conversational style of dialog and the fluid movements of his actors to give us people who are characters from the moment we see them; we have the sense that when they leave camera range they're still thinking, humming, scratching, chewing and nodding to each other in the street. - 100
The Guardian
If anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971. - 100
The Observer (UK)
A truly great western. - 100
Salon
The movie haunts you like a ballad whose tune you remember but whose words hang just beyond reach. And like listening to a ballad, we know the outcome of the events we're watching was foretold long ago, but we're helpless to do anything but surrender to the tale. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
A grim and dirty slice of bleak frontier life rendered with extraordinary beauty. - 88
LarsenOnFilm
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is less a deromanticized Western than an emasculated one. It’s a de-pantsing, really, of the strong, silent men who have long dominated the genre. Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. - 80
Time Out
One of the best of Altman's early movies, using classic themes - the ill-fated love of gambler and whore, the gunman who dies by the gun, the contest between little man and big business - to produce a non-heroic Western.
