McCabe & Mrs. Miller [blu-ray]

An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.

General Note:

Based on the novel "McCabe" by Edmund Naughton.

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.

Special features: Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; New documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy, casting director Graeme Clifford, and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury; New conversation about the film and Altman's career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell; Featurette from the film's production, shot on location in 1970; Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art Directors Guild Film Society; Archival footage from interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film; Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro; Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of "The Dick Cavett Show" featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael; Trailer; Plus: an essay by film critic Nathaniel Rich.

Performers:

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, William Devane, John Schuck, Shelley Duvall.

Technical Details:

Blu-ray, widescreen (2.40:1); mono; requires Blu-ray player.

Subject Term:

Gamblers -- Drama.

Mining camps -- Northwest, Pacific -- Drama.

Brothels -- Northwest, Pacific -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Western films.

Fiction films.