![]() ![]() ![]() I really don't think these fit the movie well, as her style of singing and voice seem odd in a film set in Arizona and Mexico among cattle. By the way, a couple songs (including the title song) are sung by Carole King. Certainly not among the actors' best but a decent time-passer-plus you get to see Lee Marvin riding a horse while wearing a suit-and you can't see that every day. But, with some actors (especially Paul Newman), I can live with this. Sure, it might have had more to the script than that, but it sure didn't look like it did. "Pocket Money" is a very slow film that appears as if it was made up as the movie was being filmed. ![]() However, LOTS of complications arise and a seemingly simple job turns sour. Once he arrives in Mexico, he meets up with his old friend Leonard (Marvin) and the two try to purchase cattle. However, a guy with a shady reputation (Strother Martin) wants to employ him to go down into Mexico in order to buy some cattle. Rancher Jim Kane (Newman) is having some seriously bad luck and is broke. This is absolutely the case, though at least having some excellent actors (Paul Newman and Lee Marvin) makes it watchable. And yet, through it all, they’re more or less happy to have each other as company for the ride.When I read through the previous reviews for this film on IMDb, I noticed that quite a few folks thought this film was scant when it comes to script. If he’s not cooking up some harebrained pipe dream, he’s launching into some pointless story that starts off with something like ”Which reminds me of two hookers I knew in Flagstaff…” Newman and Marvin bicker, get rip-roaring drunk in seedy cantinas and fleabag motels, and crisscross Mexico getting beat to a pulp by life. They don’t have a word in their language for rough and tumble, did you know that?” Leonard is a classic flake and Marvin plays him to the hilt. Instead, he hires a sad mariachi band for the occasion and offers Newman the following wisdom: ”You gotta understand the character of these people. When Newman gets out, Marvin’s Leonard doesn’t bother apologizing. First, he gets him into a feud with a shady local (played by a young and, yes, already bald Hector Elizondo) and then gets him thrown into a Mexican prison. Of course, Leonard only gets Newman into deeper trouble. ![]()
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