: The plot shifts into a critique of capitalism. The real villains are a mining corporation that uses "force when guile fails" to take over McCabe's business.
Robert Altman’s 1971 classic, , is widely regarded as a "perfect" film and a definitive "anti-western" that subverts nearly every trope of the genre. Rather than heroic gunfights, it presents a bleak, atmospheric elegy for the American frontier, trading standard heroics for a story about "love, death, and capitalism". Cinematic Style and Atmosphere subtitle McCabe.&.Mrs..Miller.1971.720p.BluRay....
: The songs of Leonard Cohen, such as "The Stranger Song," enhance the film’s romantic melancholy. : The plot shifts into a critique of capitalism
: Warren Beatty’s John McCabe is a "seedy pimp-cum-entrepreneur." He is often outmatched by his ambitions and Mrs. Miller's intelligence. Rather than heroic gunfights, it presents a bleak,
: The town of Presbyterian Church was built in British Columbia as the film was shot. This gives it a "lived-in" quality.