Pocket Money

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This article is about the 1972 film. For the 1976 Truffaut film released under this name outside the USA, see Small Change (film). For a monetary allowance paid to children, see allowance (money).

Pocket Money
Theatrical poster.
Directed by	Stuart Rosenberg
Produced by	John Foreman
Written by	Joseph P. Brown (novel Jim Kane (1970)), John Gay, Terrence Malick
Starring	Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin
Music by	Alex North
Cinematography	László Kovács
Editing by	Bob Wyman
Studio	First Artists
Distributed by	National General Pictures
Release dates	February 14, 1972
Running time	102 mins.
Country	USA
Language	English

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. Portions of the film were shot at Southwestern Studios in Carefree, Arizona, a facility originally built by cast member Fred Graham.

Plot

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.

Cast

Paul Newman ... Jim Kane
Lee Marvin ... Leonard
Strother Martin ... Bill Garrett
Wayne Rogers ... Stretch Russell
Hector Elizondo ... Juan
Christine Belford ... Adelita
Kelly Jean Peters ... Sharon (Kane's ex-wife)
Gregory Sierra ... Guerro Chavarin (as Gregg Sierra)
Fred Graham ... Uncle Herb
Matt Clark ... American prisoner
Claudio Miranda ... Manisterio Publico
Terrence Malick ... Worksman

Reception

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. We don't."^[1] The film currently has a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[2]

References

External links

Pocket Money at the Internet Movie Database
Pocket Money at allmovie
Pocket Money at Rotten Tomatoes
Pocket Money at Box Office Mojo
Carefree,_Arizona

v t e Films directed by Stuart Rosenberg

1960s	Murder, Inc. (1960) Question 7 (1961) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The April Fools (1969)

1970s	Move (1970) WUSA (1970) Pocket Money (1972) The Laughing Policeman (1973) The Drowning Pool (1975) Voyage of the Damned (1976) Love and Bullets (1979) The Amityville Horror (1979)

1980s	Brubaker (1980) The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) Let's Get Harry (1986)

1990s	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)

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