Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

• Paramount Pictures
• Jack Nicholson
• Mary Steenburgen
• Christopher Lloyd
• John Belushi
• Veronica Cartwright
• Richard Bradford
• Jeff Morris
• Danny DeVito