Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jack Nicholson | ... | Henry Lloyd Moon | |
Mary Steenburgen | ... | Julia Tate Moon | |
Christopher Lloyd | ... | Deputy Towfield | |
John Belushi | ... | Deputy Hector | |
Veronica Cartwright | ... | Hermine, Moon's Old Gang | |
Richard Bradford | ... | Sheriff Andrew Kyle | |
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Jeff Morris | ... | Big Abe, Moon's Old Gang |
Danny DeVito | ... | Hog, Moon's Old Gang | |
Tracey Walter | ... | Coogan, Moon's Old Gang | |
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Gerald H. Reynolds | ... | Polty, Rail Road Manager |
Luana Anders | ... | Lorette Anderson | |
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George W. Smith | ... | Mr. Anderson |
Lucy Lee Flippin | ... | Diane Haber | |
Ed Begley Jr. | ... | Whitey Haber | |
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Maureen Byrnes | ... | Mrs. Warren |
Texas, shortly after the Civil War. Henry Moon is an outlaw, on the run from the law. He is captured trying to escape to Mexico and taken back to town to be hanged. The town has a special law that a condemned man can walk free if one of the single women of the town offer to marry him. Henry is in luck - at the last moment Julia Tate offers to marry him, and pretty soon they are married. However, Henry soon discovers that Julia's motives are purely business-orientated - she needs someone to work the mine on her property. This makes for a very cold marriage. Written by grantss
My late father and I always referred to this as the movie we "accidentally" watched on HBO late one night. We were hooked when the posse rode right across the Rio Grande into Mexico and "Ol' Speed" fainted! For the rest of his life he always greeted me in the morning with "Good mornin' Spot!" In much the same vein as another of his favorites (Evil Roy Slade), it is difficult to find two lines together from this movie that can be taken seriously ("Please wipe your feet." . . "I always do!")("I'll be outside running a reference test." . . "Why don't you run one on your skull while you're at it?"). I have watched my home-recorded VHS upwards of 25-30 times and now that the DVD has been released, I look forward to adding it to my collection once again because . . . . "I can do this all day long! I'm talking about . . All Day Long!" Give it a spin and give it a chance.