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Goin' South

Goin' South

5,8 /10 (172 Votes)
1978 EN 109 min

Overview

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

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Release date

06/10/1978

Votes

172

Popularity

2.4

In 1868 Longhorn Texas, a convicted outlaw had two choices: get hung, or get married.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

109 min

Revenue

$7,435,671

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John Chard

John Chard

2017-06-30

⭐ 7

Your wife will have to do that. Us ordinance husbands aren't allowed to. Going' South is directed by Jack Nicholson who also stars. It's co- written by John Herman Schneider, Al Ramrus, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel. Co-starring with Nicholson is Mary Steenburgen and Christopher Lloyd. Music is by Perry Botkin Junior and cinematography by Nestor Almendros. 1866, Longhorn, Texas and plot finds Nicholson as Henry Lloyd Moon, a small time outlaw who is captured and sentenced to hang. But a strange ordinance from Civil War days allows a condemned man to escape the gallows if an unmarried la…

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