The best thing about Going' South is the fact that Jack Nicholson gives us the force of his full blown personality in the lead role. And it's completely in character with the role he's enacting. Which is natural enough since the project was created for Jack Nicholson and directed by Jack Nicholson.
He's a rogue of an outlaw and sad to say that he gets caught when he least expects by a posse in hot pursuit to Mexico. They've got Jack for horse stealing and back in those days that was a capital crime in the old west.
Sheriff Richard Bradford and Deputy Christopher Lloyd, the latter who has a special grudge against Jack are ready to hang him legal and proper when a special law is invoked. It seems as though the aftermath of the Civil War left a shortage of men. So unless you've committed murder, if any widow wants to claim you for whatever reason, you can be married.
He's in luck when young Mary Steenburgen claims him, but she's far more interested in getting him to work a gold mine on her property. But she's a widow with other needs and even Jack the rogue has a charming way about him, if a direct one at times.
Going' South was Mary Steenburgen's first feature film and she matches Nicholson in her own way guile for guile. The Civil War left her a bride nearly intact shall we say, but she does accomplish her objectives with Jack.
Two really great gags that I liked was the posse's flagrant disregard for international law to bring Jack in. Second was an unfortunate encounter Christopher Lloyd had at an outhouse with some equine waste product, courtesy of Nicholson.
Going' South is a nice rollicking comedy where Jack Nicholson goes full blast with his quirky personality. For some reason it didn't catch on, but I think Nicholson fans and others will really like it.
He's a rogue of an outlaw and sad to say that he gets caught when he least expects by a posse in hot pursuit to Mexico. They've got Jack for horse stealing and back in those days that was a capital crime in the old west.
Sheriff Richard Bradford and Deputy Christopher Lloyd, the latter who has a special grudge against Jack are ready to hang him legal and proper when a special law is invoked. It seems as though the aftermath of the Civil War left a shortage of men. So unless you've committed murder, if any widow wants to claim you for whatever reason, you can be married.
He's in luck when young Mary Steenburgen claims him, but she's far more interested in getting him to work a gold mine on her property. But she's a widow with other needs and even Jack the rogue has a charming way about him, if a direct one at times.
Going' South was Mary Steenburgen's first feature film and she matches Nicholson in her own way guile for guile. The Civil War left her a bride nearly intact shall we say, but she does accomplish her objectives with Jack.
Two really great gags that I liked was the posse's flagrant disregard for international law to bring Jack in. Second was an unfortunate encounter Christopher Lloyd had at an outhouse with some equine waste product, courtesy of Nicholson.
Going' South is a nice rollicking comedy where Jack Nicholson goes full blast with his quirky personality. For some reason it didn't catch on, but I think Nicholson fans and others will really like it.