In 1868 Longhorn Texas, a convicted outlaw had two choices: get hung, or get married.
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20177/10
Your wife will have to do that. Us ordinance husbands aren't allowed to. Going' South is directed by Jack Nicholson who also stars. It's co- written by John Herman Schneider, Al Ramrus, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel. Co-starring with Nicholson is Mary Steenburgen and Christopher Lloyd. Music is by Perry Botkin Junior and cinematography by Nestor Almendros. 1866, Longhorn, Texas and plot finds Nicholson as Henry Lloyd Moon, a small time outlaw who is captured and sentenced to hang. But a strange ordinance from Civil War days allows a condemned man to escape the gallows if an unmarried lady of the town is prepared to take him as a husband. Enter Julie Tate (Steenburgen), a virginal lady who is poles apart from the crude and scruffy Moon, who takes him in purely to help her work in the mine on her land that she insists contains gold. Could these two opposites actually develop a relationship? Can there be trust there? Will Moon survive the wrath of vengeful deputy Towfield (Lloyd) who believes Moon stole his gal? Barely noticed upon release, where few critics of the day were prepared to give it some credit, Jack Nicholson's second film as a director found a firm fan base down in the cu
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Cast
- Jack NicholsonHenry Moon
- Mary SteenburgenJulia Tate
- Christopher LloydTowfield
- John BelushiHector
- Veronica CartwrightHermine
- Richard BradfordSheriff Kyle
- Jeff MorrisBig Abe
- Danny DeVitoHog
- Tracey WalterCoogan
- Gerald H. ReynoldsPolty
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- Jack NicholsonDirector
- Charles ShyerScreenplay
- Alan MandellScreenplay
- John Herman ShanerScreenplay
- Néstor AlmendrosDirector of Photography
- Perry Botkin Jr.Original Music Composer
- Van Dyke ParksOriginal Music Composer
- John Fitzgerald BeckEditor
- Richard ChewEditor
- Harold SchneiderProducer
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