In the early 70's I had a buddy who worked at the local Cineplex, so he would let his pals sneak in for free. Saw a lot of good films that way. This wasn't one of them. We were quite excited about a Paul Newman/Lee Marvin pairing in a Western, no less. We all were bored to tears. So 50 years later, decided to give it another shot, caught it on TCM. Thought perhaps the film was over my teenage brain in 1972. I was correct the first time. The only reason this gets a very generous 4 is for the star power of Newman and Marvin, they were at their career peak. But absolutely nothing happens in this, no fights, no sex-you'd think in a story taking place in Mexico that they could get them in a cathouse-and all though the script tries to have some clever dialogue, it fails miserably. Both stars seem as confused as to how to play this as we were watching it.
Review of Pocket Money
