Product Information
An enterprising gambler decides to build a casino and whorehouse in a Pacific Northwest frontier town.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Foster, Mitchell Brower
EAN7321900110556
eBay Product ID (ePID)3970032
Product Key Features
ActorWarren Beatty, Bert Remsen, John Schuck, Rene Auberjonois, Corey Fischer, Keith Carradine, Julie Christie, William Devane
Film/TV TitleMccabe and Mrs Miller
DirectorRobert Altman
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesAudio Commentary-1. Robert Altman-Director\Trailer\Documentary
GenreWesterns
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Production DesignerLeon Ericksen
ReviewsUSA Today - ...A visual marvel..., Entertainment Weekly - ...One of Robert Altman's best....The film's real strength is its offbeat characters and their mood-drenched milieu..., New York Times - ...A lyrical and hardhearted masterpiece....Two of the best performances of [Beatty's and Christie's] careers..., Chicago Sun-Times - ...The film is a poem -- an elegy for the dead....Few film have such an overwhelming sense of location...
Additional InformationA haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture concerning love and the pursuit of wealth in early America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in Presbyterian Church, a small Northwestern town, and opens up a saloon and a brothel. Soon after, the English head madame, Constance Miller (Julie Christie) arrives and forms a partnership with McCabe in order to manage the brothel's business affairs. McCabe soon has trouble expressing his true feelings to Mrs. Miller, with whom he has fallen in love; she, in turn, relies on opium to distract her from her own personal sorrows. After a powerful company arrives and offers to buy out McCabe's property, his stubborn refusal ends up jeopardising his life, resulting in a showdown with three hired killers in the middle of a freak blizzard. Vilmos Zsigmond's faded imagery--purposely manipulated by "flashing" the film stock before shooting--along with production designer Leon Ericksen's authentic town, brings to life a past world that is tainted with an underlying sadness. Beatty, as the lovesick McCabe, and Christie, who was nominated for an Oscar as the hard-nosed Mrs. Miller, deliver earnest performances that add an even greater despondency to the story, which is heightened by Leonard Cohen's melancholy soundtrack.
ScreenwriterBrian McKay, Robert Altman
MusicLeonard Cohen
Movie/TV TitleMcCabe And Mrs Miller
EditorLou Lombardo
Director of PhotographyVilmos Zsigmond