Directed by John Huston • 1972 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ned Beatty
Vinegaroon law goes like this. Penalty for stealing whisky: hanging. Penalty for not cutting the judge in on a bank heist: hanging. Penalty for speaking ill of New York actress Lillie Langtry: shooting. Then hanging. Paul Newman joins director John Huston, screenwriter John Milius, and a cast of superb sidewinders to tell the true-life tall tale of the Wild West’s famous hanging judge Roy Bean, who prospers while ruling a desolate West Texas town and worshipping the three loves of his life—an actress (Ava Gardner) he has never met, his faithful mistress (Victoria Principal), and a beer-drinking bear.
Directed by Robert Altman • 1976 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy
Robert Altman directs a dynamic ensemble cast—including Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Shelley Duvall—in this subversive revisionist western. Although Buffalo Bill...
