Jack Nicholsonโ€™s second film as director, an anarchic western, with Jackโ€™s filthy outlaw saved from hanging, married off to Mary Steenburgen and put to work on her land. Itโ€™s a shaggy, high plains African Queen, with Nicholson the director simultaneously coarse and tender and allowing Nicholson the actor one of his more raggedly wolfish turns.