Fleeing induction into the Union Army, an Ohio preacher's son (Barry Brown) beats it into the Civil War-era West, where he manages to fall in with a charming young con artist (Jeff Bridges) and his... more
Director-star Jack Nicholson portrays Henry Lloyd Moon, a nomadic cad in 1870s Kansas, spared from the hangman's noose by marrying spinster Julie Tate (Mary Steenburgen, in her film debut). A... more