A fight ensues and Newman is tossed into jail. Elizondo owns the pens where the cows are staying and his father is a heavyweight in the town, but that doesn't stop the angry Newman from going after the man. A few of theĬows have since gone off on their own and Newman is livid. Newman and Marvin now learn that their Mexican foreman, Elizondo, has sold the animals' feed and set them out to graze off the land. Having been through the quarantine problem already, Newman knows the area is filled with insects and the herd is inĭanger, but Rogers says it's all been taken care of and that money has changed hands to allow the steers to get through unstopped by the authorities. He can cash it once he brings the steers to Chihuahua. Newman's pocket money is depleted, but Rogers arrives with a check, post-dated, that Newman will have as good faith. Marvin, seeing Newman overpay for the herd he is to take back from Mexico, is surprised to see that Newman is far more slow-witted than he'd Newman can't do the job alone, so he contacts promoter Marvin, who is flat broke because his latest fly-by-night ploy has failed. Newman gets pocket money from Martin with the promise that he will later receive his expenses, fee, and a bonus when he Newman's uncle, Graham, has been burned by Martin before and alerts his nephew, but Newman, desperate, accepts the assignment. Into the US for Martin's rodeo supply business. While in Tucson he ambles into a bar and meets Rogers (an old acquaintance he should have forgotten), who tells him that his boss, Martin (a rotten cuss if there ever was one), needs someone to squire 200 steers from Mexico
The animals have been quarantined for several weeks,Īnd he needs money to pay back debts to the bank, and to pay his alimony.
His bad luck follows him around like a black cloud over his head, and his current problem concerns a herd of horses he's brought to Tucson from Mexico. Newman is an easygoing cowboy operating on the Texas-Arizona border. Newman mugged and grimaced in an attempt at comedy, and Marvin's underplaying was lethargic, as though he were a graduate of the Robert Mitchum It wasn't as terrible a movie as the first reviews of it indicated, but since so much was expected, anything less than brilliance was a letdown. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and others), Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, and Dustin Hoffman formed First Artists, and this was their premier Attempting to relive the days of the early United Artists (a company formed by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W.
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