Movie Reviews of McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
On a smoky horse on a rainy autumn afternoon of the previous century Leonard Cohen's 'The Stranger Song' curls around John McCabe, gambler, as he leads a pack horse up into the newly minted British Columbia mining town of Presbyterian Church. He's come to open a saloon/bordello but really knows little about the bordello business and that end of his enterprise flounders until the arrival of Mrs. Miller. She's an English working girl and convinces McCabe to back her financially in a proper whorehouse. The house naturally prospers as miners flock to it. Such an obvious asset to the community catches the eye of the large mining company who is buying out small claims and consolidating it's hold upon the town. They make McCabe an offer which he refuses in a drunken stupor. When Mrs. Miller finds out that the mining company representatives have left town, she tells McCabe that he's in for it. Sure enough, three menacing men arrive and let it be known they're "bear hunters." McCabe faces the hired killers in a shootout in the snow while the rest of the town is fighting the burning Presbyterian church and Mrs. Miller lays blissed-out in a Chinese opium den.
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