7/19/2023 0 Comments Pocket money 1972When he brings a bunch of Appaloosa horses across the border from Mexico, they wind up in quarantine, suffering the equine equivalent of a disease sometimes said to be no worse than the common cold. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a good‐natured, none‐toocanny Texas cowboy who owns a pickup truck, owes money to the bank and to his ex‐wife, and has a perfect knack for making bad bargains. ![]() The action solves no problems but Jim Kane feels better for having done it. ![]() Instead, “Pocket Money” deals in small, mostly comic tests of the spirit, like the one in which its hardluck hero, to make his point, finally heaves a television set through a motel window. The Old West has already declined and there are no shootouts at the O.K. Money” is a very appealing movie that might be loosely described as a contemporary Western.
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