Pocket Money is a 1972 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg from a screenplay written by Terrence Malick. It stars Paul Newman and Lee Marvin and takes place in 1970s Arizona and Northern Mexico. // Top grossing films The Godfather Fiddler on the Roof Diamonds Are Forever Whats Up, Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan ONeal Dirty Harry The Last Picture Show A Clockwork Orange Cabaret, starring Liza Minnelli The Hospital Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Academy Awards Best Picture... Stuart Rosenberg is a film director. ... Terrence Terry Malick (born November 30, 1943 in Waco, Texas) is an enigmatic Assyrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. ... Newman in Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in a climactic scene from the 1973 film Emperor of the North Pole. ... Official language(s) None Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area  Ranked 6th  - Total 113,998 sq mi (295,254 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ...

Role in the history of film

It is an important 'divider' between what could be termed 'the Western era' and the 'post-Western era' in American cinemology. Other films with the status of Western genre divider include the Western films of Clint Eastwood and some films by Robert Altman including Nashville and 3 Women, his first major commercial release. The genre of Western has been subsumed in part by the Country music and music video genre. Some Australian films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max work well as Westerns. The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... A genre is a division of a particular form of art or utterance according to criteria particular to that form. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Filmmaker Robert Altman on the set of The Gingerbread Man. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... 3 Women is a 1977 film directed by Robert Altman. ... The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian film about two drag queens, and a transsexual woman driving across the outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a large bus they have named Priscilla. ... Mad Max is an Australian apocalyptic science fiction film starring Mel Gibson. ...

Pocket Money is important because it is the only one of the films listed above that represents the American West as it exist(ed) at the time of the filming. Thus it is important as a reference point in understanding the very many classic Western movies that also represent actual life in the American West. The Australian movies and the Clint Eastwood Westerns listed here, as well as parts of very many other movies including Star Wars movies and films such as Holes, are only partially Westerns, or are relatively fantastical and/or story-like instead of being verite and genre-self-conscious in terms of their nature as Westerns. The cover of the 2004 DVD widescreen release of the modified original Star Wars Trilogy. ... The term hole may refer to: Black hole Electron hole, the absence of an electron in the valence band in solid state physics and electronics. ...