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    McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)

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    Set in a snow-covered Pacific Northwest rather than the dusty plains of genre tradition, McCabe and Mrs Miller casts Warren Beatty as the blustering cardsharp John Q. McCabe, an anti-heroic knave who goes into business with (and falls for) opium-addicted prostitute Constance Miller (Julie Christie).

    McCabe dreams of turning a mud-caked frontier settlement into a bustling town, but he has hardly begun when he is gunned down by the agents of a sinister mining company.

    This is no ordinary Western. Director Robert Altman allows conversations to overlap, encourages the actors to improvise and told Hungarian cameraman Vilmos Zsigmond to use yellow filters for some scenes and underexpose others.

    With songs by Leonard Cohen and hazy, sepia-like widescreen photography by Zsigmond, the result is a beguilingly dreamlike vision of times past, texturally unique in the history of the western.

    Altman claimed the movie was “less about the spirit of the pioneer than about the spirit of the entrepreneur”.

    John Q. McCabe
    Warren Beatty
    Mrs Constance Miller
    Julie Christie
    Patrick Sheehan
    René Auberjonois
    Dog Butler
    Hugh Millais
    Smalley
    John Schuck
    Ida Coyle
    Shelley Duvall
    Mr Elliott
    Corey Fischer
    Gene Sears
    Michael Murphy
    Clement Samuels
    William Devane
    Bart Coyle
    Bert Remsen
    Ernie Hollander
    Antony Holland
    Kid
    Manfred Schulz
    Breed
    Jace Van Der Veen
    Lily Two-for-One
    Jackie Crossland
    Pinto Kate
    Elizabeth Murphy
    Mighty Alma
    Carey Lee Mckenzie
    Archer
    Tom Hill
    Blanche
    Linda Sorensen
    Birdie
    Elizabeth Knight
    Eunice
    Janet Wright
    Maisie
    Maysie Hoy
    Ruth
    Linda Kupecek
    Jeremy Berg
    Jeremy Newsom
    Riley Quinn
    Jack Riley
    Shorty Dunn
    Wesley Taylor
    Mrs Dunn
    Anne Cameron
    Bill Cubbs
    Graeme Campbell
    JJ
    J.S. Johnson
    Joe Sortreed
    Joe Clarke
    Andy Anderson
    Harry Frazier
    Gilchrist
    Edwin Collier
    Quigley
    Terence Kelly
    Buffalo
    Don Francks
    Sumner Washington
    Rodney Gage
    Mrs Washington
    Lili Francks

    Director
    Robert Altman

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