McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Guest host Keith Carradine introduces McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971.

McCabe (Warren Beatty) has just opened his bare-bones prostitution operation in the frontier mining town when a steam-tractor arrives carrying Ida (Shelley Duvall) and unbidden Julie Christie as Mrs. Miller, who’ll make a proposition, in Robert Altman’s celebrated McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971.

With Leonard Cohen’s song Sisters Of Mercy slipping in and out, McCabe (Warren Beatty) returns with his novice prostitutes (Jackie Crossland, Elizabeth Murphy, Carey Lee McKenzie), Berg (Jeremy Newsom) his construction foreman, in Robert Altman’s McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971.

English-born business partner and prostitute Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) joins gambler/financier McCabe (Warren Beatty) in their under-construction turn-of-the-century Washington state frontier brothel, tangling over their roles in the operation, in Robert Altman’s McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971.

Leonard Cohen’s song and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond’s flash-exposed film multiply the atmosphere of director and co-writer Robert Altman’s opening, his handsome leading man Warren Beatty obscured in thick beard and cumbersome fur coat, in McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971.

A gambler (Warren Beatty) and a prostitute (Julie Christie) become business partners in a remote Old West mining town in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971).