Goin' South

Goin' South is a 1978 American western-comedy film in which, due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the Sheriff, the bank, and each other.
 * Directed by Jack Nicholson. Written by John Herman Shaner, Al Ramrus, Charles Shyer, and Alan Mandel.

Saved from the hangman, for a fate worse than death!taglines

Henry Moon

 * Well, I ain't no slab of meat to be auctioned off, but what the hell? Fine by me.


 * I'll never forget you, Hermine. You was the first woman I didn't have to pay for.


 * [to a homely woman who's sizing him up for matrimony] I wouldn't take you to a dog-fight if you was the defendin' champ!


 * Poultry is just another way of sayin' chicken.


 * Hold on, Towfield, you're wrinklin' my good luck ban-dan-na.

Other

 * Hermine: [to Henry Moon just prior to his hanging] You was the best I ever had... 'cept maybe for that circus fella.

Dialogue

 * Deputy Towfield: [of Moon's marriage] It's bad, huh?
 * Henry Moon: Like eggs rolled in sand.


 * Henry Moon: Well?! Anybody hungry?
 * Big Abe: [deadpan] Hungry?! Shit, I could eat a frozen dog.
 * Henry Moon: Well, we'll go on out to the kitchen and see if we got one already froze.


 * Sheriff Andrew Kyle: Julia, are you drunk?
 * Julia Tate: Sheriff Kyle, you know I don't drink.
 * Henry Moon: 'Course she don't drink!

Taglines

 * Saved from the hangman, for a fate worse than death!


 * For Henry Moon, life was just beginning.

Cast

 * Jack Nicholson - Henry Lloyd Moon
 * Mary Steenburgen - Julie Tate
 * Christopher Lloyd - Deputy Towfield
 * John Belushi - Deputy Hector
 * Richard Bradford - Sheriff Kyle
 * Veronica Cartwright - Hermine
 * Jeff Morris - Big Abe
 * Danny DeVito - Hog
 * Tracey Walter - Coogan
 * Luana Anders - Loretta Anderson
 * Lucy Lee Flippin - Diane Haber
 * Ed Begley, Jr. - Whitey Haber
 * Lin Shaye - Parasol Lady