Despite a scruffy Jack Nicholson looking completely mad on the poster, this movie offers to few laughs to be considered to be a good comedy western. But in the other hand I'm not sure what to think of it, or how to label it. It got kind of a subtle and odd humor, very low key and not producing too many laughs but enough to keep interest.
Nicholson plays Henry Moon. A criminal convicted to hang, but at the last moment he is saved by a young woman, Julia, due to a local ordnance that any land owning woman can claim the criminal as a husband (since the town lost too many men in the war). Moon of course accepts, but might have reconsidered after he met Julia. She on the other hand just wants him to dig for gold on her farm. In Texas. And not making things easier is Moon's old gang that hangs about It is rather slow, but some gems show up. Just the cast is one of them. Besides Nicholson you can see Mary Steenburgen in her first role, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Jeff Morris, Ed Begley Jr and Danny DeVito. Just to see DeVito in a gunfight, jumping to fire over a shed is worth to watch the entire movie.
So while I didn't think too much of it, it was entertaining enough not to be a waste of time.
5/10
Nicholson plays Henry Moon. A criminal convicted to hang, but at the last moment he is saved by a young woman, Julia, due to a local ordnance that any land owning woman can claim the criminal as a husband (since the town lost too many men in the war). Moon of course accepts, but might have reconsidered after he met Julia. She on the other hand just wants him to dig for gold on her farm. In Texas. And not making things easier is Moon's old gang that hangs about It is rather slow, but some gems show up. Just the cast is one of them. Besides Nicholson you can see Mary Steenburgen in her first role, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Jeff Morris, Ed Begley Jr and Danny DeVito. Just to see DeVito in a gunfight, jumping to fire over a shed is worth to watch the entire movie.
So while I didn't think too much of it, it was entertaining enough not to be a waste of time.
5/10