

Goin' South
In 1868 Longhorn Texas, a convicted outlaw had two choices: get hung, or get married.
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $7.4M
- Language
- English
- small town
- texas
- anti hero
- dark comedy
- gold rush
- gold mine
- marriage of convenience
- outlaw
- battle of the sexes
- 1860s
- post american civil war
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG6 Oct 1978
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT126 Oct 1978
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Goin' South was released on 6 October 1978.
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1- J7/10
John Chard
6/30/2017
Your wife will have to do that. Us ordinance husbands aren't allowed to. Going' South is directed by Jack Nicholson who also stars. It's co- written by John Herman Schneider, Al Ramrus, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel. Co-starring with Nicholson is Mary Steenburgen and Christopher Lloyd. Music is by Perry Botkin Junior and cinematography by Nestor Almendros. 1866, Longhorn, Texas and plot finds Nicholson as Henr…
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