Christine Belford, Claudio Miranda, Fred Graham

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

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60% liked it

5 critics

PG, 102 minutes

Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg

Release Date: February 1, 1972

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DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006

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  • January 1, 2009
    I'm not quite sure what the intent of this being made could've been. Pocket Money is a good title because it basically tells you why Paul Newman and Lee Marvin took this project. The story is really boring and outside of sporadic chuckle inducing scenes (that focus on the Newman ...( read more)characters awkwardness), the picture sorta just lies there playing on one note from beginning to end. It seems like both Newman and Marvin hated making this movie and that comes across on the final product. Could've been alot more if they hadn't settled on a first draft quality script.
  • February 22, 2008
    Man, I wasted a lot of people's time to get this review up. Most of all mine.

    So, if you've been reading and re-reading my reviews, you should remember when I was plowing through the Warner Brother's Paul Newman Signature Collection. I couldn't stop ranting and raving about ...( read more)that set. After all, it had all these pretty great movies that I had barely heard of. Well, I always wanted to balance those glowing reviews with Pocket Money. Pocket Money is kind of a lame movie that has almost no coherence whatsoever.

    And to think that I made some poor Flixster employees make a page for this film. But I get to be the first review, so that's something.

    The good part about this film is the cast. Paul Newman and Lee Marvin on a screen together? I nearly lost it when I saw the cover for this DVD. I mean, Paul Newman, we decided, was great, but Lee "F*cking" Marvin? (People call him "F*cking" as a nickname. I can't help that.) Lee Marvin makes a movie badass. Well, I quickly discovered, that only counts when he's playing a badass. Yeah, the performances are fine. But I cannot stress enough how this movie has little to no throughline. We see an honest man down on his luck who knows he's gonna get screwed...

    ...and he gets screwed. Really? I had to watch the entire film just to get that moment confirmed. Also, this movie really tries to be somewhat of a comedy but the laughs are just forced. I know both actors can deliver some absolutely great jokes, but not when the jokes are poorly written. I honestly don't know where to file this movie in terms of genre. There's just very little redeeeming it.

    It's got some pretty pictures and if you are a big fan of Mexico, there might be something here for you. But otherwise, this movie just comes in pretty flat. It's also really hard to review this movie after-the-fact because I remember being so disappointed right at the time.

    But thank you, kind souls at Flixster. I'm sorry I made you put in a movie that is really kind of blah.

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November 11, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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