Pocket Money

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pocket Money is a 1972 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, from a screenplay written by Terrence Malick and based on the novel Jim Kane (1970) by Joseph P. Brown. The movie stars Paul Newman and Lee Marvin and takes place in 1970s Arizona and Northern Mexico. The song "Pocket Money" is composed and performed by Carole King. Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy known as Jim Kane (Newman) gets mixed up in some shady dealings with Stretch Russell (Rogers) and Bill Garrett (Martin), a crooked rancher.Russell tells Kane to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico to the United States for a good sum of money.Kane agrees and brings along his friend Leonard (Marvin) to aid him.Unfortunately, the two come upon many unexpected events that often deter them from completing their job. The film received primarily mediocre to negative reviews.Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of four and wrote, "The movie seems to be going for a highly mannered, elliptical, enigmatic style, and it gets there.