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Paul Newman teams up with Lee Marvin to deliver cattle from Mexico to a shady dealer played by Strother Martin. Newman and Martin are re-teamed here with Cool Hand Luke director Stuart Rosenberg, with a script adapted by Terrence Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line). Despite the ingredients, Pocket Money is slow to rev up and ends up going nowhere. For a buddy picture, Newman and Marvin don’t leave much of an impression. Marvin almost works as the boozing happy-go-lucky sort, but Newman is less convincing as a kind hearted dim wit. Even Strother Martin is oddly restrained here, at a time when you really just want to see him embrace a role of villainy.