McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe amp Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Revisionist Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is based on Edmund Naughtons 1959 novel McCabe. Altman referred to it as an antiwestern film because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

McCabe establishes a makeshift brothel, consisting of three prostitutes purchased from a pimp in the nearby town of Bearpaw for 200. British cockney Constance Miller Julie Christie arrives in town and tells him she could run a brothel for him more profitably unknown to him she is addicted to opium. The two become successful business partners, and open a higher class establishment, including a bathhouse for hygiene, both of which are financially successful. A love interest develops between the two.As the town becomes richer, Sears Michael Murphy and Hollander Antony Holland, a pair of agents from the Harrison Shaughnessy mining company in Bearpaw, arrive to buy out McCabes business, as well as the surrounding zinc mines. Shaughnessy is notorious for having people killed when they refuse to sell. McCabe does not want to sell at their initial price of 5,500, but he overplays his hand in the negotiations in spite of Mrs. Millers warnings that he is underestimating the violence that will ensue if they do not take the money. ........

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