McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971 · 121 min · dir. Robert Altman

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The screenplay by Altman and Brian McKay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. Set in Washington State during the early 1900s, the film follows a mysterious gambler and alleged shootist (Beatty) who recruits a British madam (Christie) to run a boomtown brothel, later running afoul of powerful business interests. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.