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Pocket Money

  • Director: Stuart Rosenberg
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Comedy Western, Modern Western
  • Themes: Ranchers, Cons and Scams
  • Main Cast: E. Baca, R. Camargo, R. Manning, Wynn Pearce, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters
  • Release Year: 1972
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico into the United States for use of the rodeo circuit. While the deal seems dubious, Kane goes along with it, and persuades his friend Leonard (Lee Marvin) to tag along. However, the cattle drive proves to be more of a challenge than the men expected, with a number of less-than-welcome adventures following the cattlemen along the way. Pocket Money also features Strother Martin, Hector Elizondo and Wayne Rogers; keep an eye peeled for a cameo appearance by Terrence Malick, who wrote the film's screenplay years before directing the acclaimed Badlands and Days of Heaven. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Fred Graham - Herb; Poupee Bocar; Hector Elizondo - Juan; Richard Farnsworth; P.J. Johnson; Gregory Sierra - Chavarin; Mickey Gilbert - Stunt Double; Terrence Malick - Workman; Wayne Rogers - Stretch; Phillip Avenetti; Nina Roman - Filling Station Attendant; John Verros - Almara; E. Baca - Nieblas; R. Camargo - Don Tomas; R. Manning - Foreman; Wynn Pearce - Border Patrolman

Credit

Tambi Larsen - Art Director, Jim Linn - Costume Designer, Nat Tolmach - Costume Designer, Mickey McCardle - First Assistant Director, Stuart Rosenberg - Director, Bob Wyman - Editor, Alex North - Composer (Music Score), Carole King - Songwriter, Dick Cobos - Makeup, Laszlo Kovacs - Cinematographer, John C. Foreman - Producer, Darrell Silvera - Set Designer, Don Courtney - Special Effects, Larry Jost - Sound/Sound Designer, Terrence Malick - Screenwriter, John Gay - Screenwriter, J.P.S. Brown - Book Author

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Dictionary: pocket money
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n.
Money for incidental or minor expenses.


Idioms: pocket money
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Also, spending money. Cash for incidental or minor expenses, as in They don't believe in giving the children pocket money without asking them to do chores, or Can I borrow a dollar? I'm out of all my spending money. The first term, dating from the early 1600s, alludes to keeping small sums in one's pocket; the second alludes to money that may be spent (as opposed to saved) and dates from the late 1500s.


WordNet: pocket money
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses
  Synonyms: pin money, spending money


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Pocket Money

Theatrical poster.
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Produced by John Foreman
Written by Joseph P. Brown (novel Jim Kane (1970)),
John Gay,
Terrence Malick
Starring Paul Newman,
Lee Marvin,
Strother Martin
Music by Alex North
Cinematography László Kovács
Editing by Bob Wyman
Distributed by National General Pictures
Release date(s) United States February 14, 1972
Running time 102 mins.
Country  USA
Language English

Pocket Money is a 1972 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, from a screenplay written by Terrence Malick and based on the novel Jim Kane (1970) by Joseph P. Brown. The movie stars Paul Newman and Lee Marvin and takes place in 1970s Arizona and Northern Mexico.

The song "Pocket Money" is composed and performed by Carole King.

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Plot

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy known as Jim Kane (Newman) gets mixed up in some shady dealings with Stretch Russell (Rogers) and Bill Garrett (Martin), a crooked rancher. Russell tells Kane to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico to the United States for a good sum of money. Kane agrees and brings along his friend Leonard (Marvin) to aid him. Unfortunately, the two come upon many unexpected events that often deter them from completing their job.

Cast

Paul Newman ... Jim Kane
Lee Marvin ... Leonard
Strother Martin ... Bill Garrett
Wayne Rogers ... Stretch Russell
Hector Elizondo ... Juan
Christine Belford ... Adelita
Kelly Jean Peters ... Sharon (Kane's ex-wife)
Gregory Sierra ... Guerro Chavarin (as Gregg Sierra)
Fred Graham ... Uncle Herb
Matt Clark ... American prisoner
Claudio Miranda ... Manisterio Publico
Terrence Malick ... Worksman

Reception

The film received primarily mediocre to negative reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of four and wrote, "The movie seems to be going for a highly mannered, elliptical, enigmatic style, and it gets there. We don't."[1] The film currently has a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]

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