Pocket Money

1972
PG
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Comedy Drama Western

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Pocket Money

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Paul Newman

Jim Kane

Lee Marvin

Leonard

Strother Martin

Bill Garrett

Wayne Rogers

Stretch Russell

Hector Elizondo

Juan

Christine Belford

Adelita

Kelly Jean Peters

Ex-Wife

Gregory Sierra

Chavarin
(as Gregg Sierra)

Fred Graham

Uncle Herb

Matt Clark

American Prisoner

Claudio Miranda

Ministerio Publico

Bruce Davis Bayne

Bank Customer
(uncredited)

Poupée Bocar

Girl in Bar
(uncredited)

Richard Farnsworth

Man
(uncredited)

Ken Freehill

Bank Customer
(uncredited)

Terrence Malick

Worksman
(uncredited)

Director
- Stuart Rosenberg
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Trivia
The movie's publicity still with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin was photographed by British photographer Terry O'Neill and also appears on the jacket of O'Neill's 2003 compilation coffee-table book "Celebrity." In the book, O'Neill recounts how when he arrived on the set to shoot his publicity stills, Lee Marvin was hungover and in a foul mood. Most of the production personnel were steering clear of him. When O'Neill gingerly approached Marvin and introduced himself, Marvin asked, "Are you English?" What O'Neill didn't know at the time was that Marvin was a lifelong Anglophile--he LOVED the British. After that brief encounter, Marvin's mood changed and, according to O'Neill, he couldn't have been more cooperative for the rest of his assignment.

Goofs
Jim asks Adelita if she's ever been out of the country, and she says she's only been to a Catholic school in San Antonio. Yet she has a thick, mid-Atlantic, prep-school accent, without a trace of the south or Spanish in it.

Quotes
Jim Kane: You just can't buy back a bad impression.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000)

Soundtracks
Pocket Money
Written and Performed by Carole King

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Featured review

5/10

Meandering...

When I read through the previous reviews for this film on IMDb, I noticed that quite a few folks thought this film was scant when it comes to script. This is absolutely the case, though at least having some excellent actors (Paul Newman and Lee Marvin) makes it watchable.

"Pocket Money" has a very simple plot. Rancher Jim Kane (Newman) is having some seriously bad luck and is broke. However, a guy with a shady reputation (Strother Martin) wants to employ him to go down into Mexico in order to buy some cattle. Once he arrives in Mexico, he meets up with his old friend Leonard (Marvin) and the two try to purchase cattle. However, LOTS of complications arise and a seemingly simple job turns sour.

"Pocket Money" is a very slow film that appears as if it was made up as the movie was being filmed. Sure, it might have had more to the script than that, but it sure didn't look like it did. But, with some actors (especially Paul Newman), I can live with this. Certainly not among the actors' best but a decent time-passer--plus you get to see Lee Marvin riding a horse while wearing a suit--and you can't see that every day.

By the way, a couple songs (including the title song) are sung by Carole King. I really don't think these fit the movie well, as her style of singing and voice seem odd in a film set in Arizona and Mexico among cattle.