Goin' South ( Going South )

Goin' South (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Going South
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes

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Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
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Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
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Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jack Nicholson

Written By:
John Herman Shaner
Al Ramrus

Actors:
Jack Nicholson ..... Henry Lloyd Moon
Mary Steenburgen ..... Julia Tate / Moon
Christopher Lloyd ..... Deputy Towfield
John Belushi ..... Deputy Hector
Richard Bradford ..... Sheriff Andrew Kyle
Veronica Cartwright ..... Hermine, Moon's Old Gang
Jeff Morris ..... Big Abe, Moon's Old Gang
Danny DeVito ..... Hog, Moon's Old Gang
Tracey Walter ..... Coogan, Moon's Old Gang
Gerald H. Reynolds ..... Polty, Rail Road Manager
Luana Anders ..... Lorette Anderson
George W. Smith ..... Mr. Anderson
Lucy Lee Flippin ..... Diane Haber
Ed Begley Jr. ..... Whitey Haber
Maureen Byrnes ..... Mrs. Warren

Synopsis:

Nicholson directed and starred in this Western spoof about an outlaw who is saved from hanging by a young widow (Mary Steenburgen) who puts him to work as an indentured servant. She has a gold mine that no one knows about and she wants him to help her get the gold before anyone else finds out. But, of course, his old gang--who gave him up to the law in the first place--finds out about the mine and wants a piece of it. This was filmed in the late 1970s, when drug use was rampant (and not particularly frowned upon) in Hollywood; keep that in mind when you listen to Nicholson's stuffy-nose delivery. Alternately amusing and flat, with a cast that includes Steenburgen in her first movie role and John Belushi in a tiny part as a member of the gang, also making his film debut.

Henry Lloyd Moon (Nicholson), a third-rate outlaw in the late 1860s, is a bank-robber, horse thief and cattle thief who is due to be hanged in Longhorn, Texas to the great glee of the local populace and especially of the deputy sheriff, played with vengeance by Christopher Lloyd. Moon comes under especially close scrutiny from some women in the town, which turns out to be because of a local ordinance, dating back to Civil War days, that allowed a condemned man (short of being a murderer) to be saved from the gallows if an unmarried lady would agree to marry him and be responsible for his good behaviour. Moon is saved from hanging by the intervention of a lovely young woman who agrees to marry and take charge of him. Julia Tate (Steenburgen), the headstrong but genteel Southern virgin who weds Moon, initially only wants him to help her work the gold mine she insists is on her property; but their shaky partnership soon evolves into much more. The deputy sheriff particularly hates Moon for marrying "his" girl, although there is no evidence that she has ever been interested in him. Moon's old gang of outlaws complicate matters at Moon's home when they show up, introduce Julia, Moon's wife, to intoxicating beverage, and later discover that there actually IS gold on the property, a fact that Mr. Moon was trying to conceal from his erstwhile colleagues.

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. Julia Tate needs a man to help her work her mine and marries him. The sheriff makes it very clear to Moon what the consequences of his leaving Julia will be. The two begin to try to form a relationship based on necessity in which they have nothing in common.

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