McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)

Addendum: In his recently released study The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the ‘Other’ in Film (I.B.Tauris: London, New York, 2016), Lee Broughton focuses on the film’s female protagonist and conceives of McCabe’s death as resultant from Mrs. Miller’s inability “to get him to take seriously the threats made by the company that wants to buy his land and business and the film ultimately suggests that independent and successful businesswomen do not deserve to be part of a happy normative relationship” (p. 186).