Goin' South

Directed by Jack Nicholson

With Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi and Veronica Cartwright

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.