Goin' South

(1978)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 174 votes

Genres: Comedy, Western, Romance

Year: 1978

Runtime: 109 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джек Николсон

Cast: Джек Николсон, Мэри Стинбёрджен, Кристофер Ллойд, Джон Белуши, Вероника Картрайт, Ричард Брэдфорд, Джеф Моррис, Дэнни Де Вито, Трейси Уолтер, Gerald H. Reynolds

Plot

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.

Texas, shortly after the Civil War. Henry Moon is an outlaw, on the run from the law. He is captured trying to escape to Mexico and taken back to town to be hanged. The town has a special law that a condemned man can walk free if one of the single women of the town offer to marry him. Henry is in luck - at the last moment Julia Tate offers to marry him, and pretty soon they are married. However, Henry soon discovers that Julia's motives are purely business-orientated - she needs someone to work the mine on her property. This makes for a very cold marriage.