Starring Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde) and Julie Christie (Don't Look Now), this film was voted by the American Film Institute as the #8 American Western of all-time. The story is about the growth of a small mining town which centers around the dichotomy of the brothel and the church.McCabe strolls into town and with the help of Mrs. Miller they start a brothel, meanwhile the town is building a church, McCabe with no moral standards even intices those working on the church to come to the brothel. The mining corperation catches wind of the brothel and tries to buy McCabe out. The true battle between corperation and little business man is at the forefront, but I truly think the director was trying to project that the real battle here was between the morality of the town. This can't but fully understood or explained without me ruining the movie, if you watch this film ask yourself who really won in the end and was there a hero in the collective of the townspeople.
Mrs. Miller is a much more boring character than I expected, how Christie got an Oscar nomination is beyond me, and the real star of the film is only McCabe. The book was originially titled just "McCabe" so I think the director/producer wanted to add the Mrs. Miller for marketing reasons. I'm very split on recommending this film because they are so many other westerns that are just better. The best part of the film, however, was the soundtrack. It gave it an epic film feeling while being while also being very unique, much like one of my favorite soundtracks from Gangs of New York.
Vote: 7/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
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