With this frigid anti-western, Altman depicts the closure of the frontier and the ascendance of cutthroat business in the American West.
Charismatic gambler John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives in a mining community and decides to open a brothel. The local residents are impressed by his confident demeanor and fast talk, but crafty prostitute Constance Miller (Julie Christie) sees through McCabe's words and realizes he isn't as sharp as he seems. For a share in his profits, Mrs. Miller agrees to help plan and run McCabe's establishment, but soon a powerful company threatens to destroy what they have built up. Featuring original songs by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
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"This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema." - The Criterion Collection
"One of the best of Altman's early movies, using classic themes -- the ill-fated love of gambler and whore, the gunman who dies by the gun, the contest between little man and big business -- to produce a non-heroic Western." - Time Out
"Still Robert Altman's best moment, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism." - Chicago Reader