YMMV / McCabe & Mrs. Miller

• Adaptation Displacement: Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe has long been out-of-print and is only remembered as the source of the film.
• Award Snub: Julie Christie's Academy Award nomination for Best Actress was the only nomination the film received.
• Retroactive Recognition: Keith Carradine makes his film debut as Cowboy.
• She Really Can Act: When she made her acting debut in Altman's previous film Brewster McCloud, Shelley Duvall came across as exactly what she was: a quirky young woman with no acting experience who the producers happened to run across and put in the film to basically play herself. A few months later she turned around and gave a remarkable, subtle performance as Ida, the Mail-Order Bride. Especially notable since she only has a few lines of dialogue and does most of her acting via facial expressions.
• Special Effect Failure: At the end of the film, the falling snow is rather obviously superimposed. It's especially jarring after the stark realism the film had employed up to that point.
  • The arm holding a lantern in the shot before the pastor's arm gets shot is obviously a prosthetic.
• Vindicated by History: An Acclaimed Flop when it was released, its stature has grown considerably. It's now considered one of the greatest American films of The '70s, and many people rate it as Robert Altman's best film.

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