Goin’ South (1978)

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.
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Bradford, Jeff Morris, Danny DeVito, Tracey Walter, Gerald H. Reynolds, Luana Anders, George W. Smith, Lucy Lee Flippin, Ed Begley Jr., Maureen Byrnes, B. J. Merholz, Britt Leach, Georgia Schmidt, Barbara Ann Grimes, Anne Ramsey, Marsha Ferri, Lin Shaye, Don McGovern, Dennis Fimple, Annie Marshall, Anita Terrian, Robert Wilson, Carlton Risdon, Nancy Coan Kaclik, R. L. Armstrong
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